There are great teachers who feel the pull toward education from an early age, and there are great teachers who find their role almost on accident, only to find educating youth was in their blood all along.

Leslie Windham is a teacher at Fredericksburg Middle School (FMS), and did not think she would be a teacher, despite early predictions by her grandmother.

Windham is originally from Arkansas but moved to Texas in 2016 to attend graduate school at Baylor University. Windham earned master’s deg...