Mrs. Westlake joined the Bay Virtual School in August 2018. She double majored in Art K-12 and English 6-12 for education and graduated in 1999 with a Bachelor’s Degree from Southeast Missouri State University. She is currently an art and journalism teacher at Merritt Brown Middle School and has been teaching for 18 years. She enjoys teaching art because she loves to watch her students make new discoveries about talents that they never knew they had, and she is amazed at the creative ideas and projects that her students come up with.