Mrs. Lozier is one of our new English teachers, teaching Honors freshman English and all of the Sophomore English classes. She previously taught English at a high school in Virginia and has now come to be a Blue Devil. Lozier reports that IHS is different from her last school. “In my previous school, there were about 2700 students in the high school, and it has been very nice to be able to teach at a smaller school,” she explained. She feels she has the opportunity to get to know all of her students and classes. “It feels like Independence has a bigger sense of community.”
Lozier attended Black Hawk High School, a small school in Western Pennsylvania, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities. She participated in many sports, musicals, and the student council during her high school experience.
After high school, Loizer attended the University of Akron for her undergraduate degree and bachelor’s degree in English literature. Later on, she received her master’s degree in teaching at the University of Pittsburgh. She didn’t really know what she wanted to do when she first came out of high school. ” I knew I liked reading and I knew I liked history,” she explained. A few ideas that interested Lozier were going into publishing and working in a museum, both incorporated either a reading or a history aspect.
Outside of school, Lozier loves to bake. Lozier says she doesn’t follow any set of directions or measurements while baking. Her husband often claims, “She just cooks with her heart.”
She also has a cat named Webster, whom she found under a trailer at her last high school. Lozier’s biggest pet peeve is slow walkers! Some advice she has for our students at Indy is, “the person you want to be is the person you are from the choices you make.” Mrs. Lozier is excited to be at IHS!
