Owen, a Coleman native, has worked as a teacher for eight years and is entering her second year in the Blanket ISD, where she teaches fifth grade. “People — my students, the connections I’ve made with teachers, my experience as a whole,” Owen said. I went into nursing, and then I went into accounting, then I went into education. Owen became a certified teacher through the University of Texas Permian Basin, and went on to teach in Brady, Lohn and Brownwood before working in the Blanket ISD. “I think my interest is kind of changing here as well because I really have a heart to help new teachers,” Owen said.