Teacher Feature: Krueger’s Colin Karger

“Everyone walks into history, day one, and they are like ‘Ahhh history, it’s so boring,’ and so that’s when I get to come in and make it not boring.”

Colin Karger is a seventh-grade Texas History teacher at Krueger Middle School.

“Oh man, my favorite thing is getting the kid who doesn’t have any emotion in class, and then all of a sudden, you get the ‘lean in’. I am like, ‘Oh yes! Finally, I have their attention.’ It takes everything in me to not be like, “Let’s Go!’ and get super excited.”

Karger comes from a family of educators.

“I grew up in a teaching family, so it was the last thing I thought I was going to want to do.”

His parents both worked at North East ISD.

They met at Ed White Middle School.

They started dating when they both ended up at MacArthur High School.

Karger had the complete NEISD experience growing up.

“I’m Thousand Oaks to Bradley to MacArthur. All North East.”

So, this District means a lot to him.

“You get to create this community that you don’t really see in other places as tightly knit as it is in North East. It’s just - it’s home for me.”

His students mean even more to him.

And they can see it in his teaching.

“It would always be a blast in his class,” said eighth-grader Gabriel Villalobos. “As a coach, he always pushed us to be better athletes. He believed in us. So yeah, he means a lot to me.”

“It’s good knowing that all the hard work and the time I put into it, that it’s doing exactly what I want for it to do for these kids,” said Karger. “It’s making them better. It’s doing what they need, not what I need, because I am in it for them, not for me.”

Click here, to see Colin's advice to parents.