From reluctance to passion: Leslie Saltares’ unexpected journey

Hailey Waldo news@greenepublishing.com Growing up along the coast of Georgia, with two parents who were both educators, Leslie Saltares swore she would never follow in their footsteps. “I swore I’d never, ever teach,” she recalls with a laugh. But, life has a way of charting its own course, and for Saltares, that course led straight to the classroom. After graduating from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., in 2000, with a degree in biology, Saltares married just a month later and devote