From a young age, Jamie Meyer knew she wanted to be a teacher. What she didn’t know was how long it would take for her to get there.

“I was such a shy, in-my-shell high school student,” said Meyer, 43, of Baiting Hollow. So shy that she majored in accounting in college and crunched numbers for three years before she realized she’d rather be helming a classroom and went back to school for a master’s degree in education at Stony Brook University.

After a year as a leave replacement physical education teacher at Hampton Bays High School , Meyer shifted in 2015 to teaching juniors and seniors about early childhood education. She has since added College and Career Exploration for ninth graders, and Hospitality and Tourism and Child Psychology for 11th and 12th graders to her course load.

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