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www.ParentingOC.com 48 Parenting OC Magazine | March 2017 TOP TEACHERS OF ORANGE COUNTY Frederique Bauer International School of Los Angeles, Orange Madame Bauer teaches a full range of traditional and STEM classes in a French immersion setting. Entering her classroom, you feel you are in a special, almost magical place, surrounded by walls fi lled with students' pictures of frogs. Madame Bauer refers to the frog throughout the day to promote self-control and relaxation with her students. Mimicking the respiration and body control of the frog is a daily tech- nique used to prepare students for their academic challenges for the day. She creates physical education lessons using Razor scooters, bilingual writing exercises, the 100th day of school project and her famous campus-wide mathematics Treasure Hunt. Last year, Madame Bauer even took her students to space! Us- ing NASA's OSIRIS-REX program, fi rst and second graders submitted videos of their artwork answering the question: What does it mean to be an explorer? The hard drive containing their work is currently fl ying aboard a spacecraft that will meet the asteroid Bennu in August 2018. Mary Brough Adelphia Classical Christian Academy, Orange Ms. Brough is one of a kind. What makes her stand above others is her heart for her students. When a student in our school lost her parents, and the grandmother who was taking care of her fell very ill, the stu- dent began falling behind her work. Ms. Brough offered to tutor her for free, gave the student her personal computer because the family couldn't afford their own and gave her wise counsel when the student felt lonely and alienated. Now, we see a different child, more confi dent, more secure in her abilities. Another student suffered from depression when he was in high school. His grades dropped, he had no close friends in school. The parents changed three schools before fi nding Ms. Brough. She patiently worked with him on his academic work, and helped him appreciate his love for the arts and encouraged him to keep going. Now, he is a creative writing major in college. She is a teacher that changes lives.