Amalie Fischer is the 7th and 8th grade Girls PE/Lifeskills teacher at Floyd Dryden, with her partner teaching the Boys, James White. She also teaches 6th grade co-ed PE. This is Amalie's 10th year at Floyd Dryden! Even though she attended Dzantiki Heeni as a middle schooler herself, she is now a full EAGLE!

Amalie grew up in Juneau, attended Auke Bay Elementary School and graduated from JDHS in 2001 (when we only had 1 HS). She went to college in Las Vegas where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice followed by a Master's Degree at UAS in Education.

Amalie has coached both girls basketball and the rifle team here at FDMS during her 10 years. Both are true to who she is as an Alaskan girl and athlete. In her free time she hikes as much as she can, camps, fishes, cooks wild game, adores her two Springer Spaniels (Bessie Moo and Neva Roo) and spends as much time in the wilderness as she can with her husband, Dylan. She is so excited about being able to teach Juneau kids about how important exercise is and how to stay safe and healthy in our unique environment here by making sure kids in her class learn the 7 steps to survival as well as cold water survival.

She became a teacher because she loves kids and interacting with them. There is never a boring day! Going virtual is new for us all and she wants her students to know she loves them and cares about them and dreams of the day she can wrap her arms around them again.