Steve Dixen is an 8th grade pre-algebra teacher at Knox Junior High in CISD. Dixen has been teaching for a total of nine years, and has been at Knox for the past three years.

Originally from Minnesota, Dixen didn’t always know he wanted to teach. In fact, he attended Luther College in Iowa to obtain his bachelor’s degree in business management and economics.

“I didn’t decide to teach until over a decade after I’d gotten my BA in business,” said Dixen. “I was a lousy and disinterested businessman. Therefore I job-hopped, thinking I could find something that fit.”

It wasn’t until his wife, Heather, suggested that he become a teacher that Dixen found his true calling. He went back to school to obtain his masters degree in teaching from Bellarmine University and has been teaching ever since. When teaching his students, Dixen notes that it’s the small things that make his job so worthwhile. click here for complete story