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Mr. Sova flaunts his tattoos while enjoying a delectable salad

History teacher by day, video gamer by night. PS5 roleplay game and tattoo enthusiast, family man, and gym goer, Aaron Sova cannot wait to start the school year. While Sova loves roleplay video games like Final Fantasy, he also loves spending time with his family, which includes his three year old son and wife, fellow FHS teacher, Mrs. Sova.

After 11 years of teaching in middle schools across Virginia, Sova is “excited for the new school and new challenges” that come with his first year teaching high school. Sova cannot wait to be able to connect with his students, saying, “I like teaching the content naturally, but being able to talk to my students and see how they are doing and how their day is going, what they are having fun with, that kinda stuff, that’s a really motivating factor.”

Sova wants his room to be open and full of communication between his students, saying, “I don’t have all the answers so I’m always looking to my students for input and ideas.”

When Sova was in high school he was inspired by his own history teacher Eric Marshall. “I had a really cool history teacher in high school who taught World 2 … and I thought wow that’s really cool, I like it alot. He’s the one who made me want to go into teaching,” said Sova.

Sova hopes he can inspire his students in the same way that they inspire him. Sova says that he takes a lot of inspiration from his students, saying “it really was my students” that inspired him to continue teaching. He listens to the input and inspiration from his students.

“They’ll tell me ‘this was boring and this was stupid don’t do this’ or they’ll say ‘let’s do this.’ I’m like, ‘by all means let’s try that.’ Yeah, I’ve always gotten ideas from my students,” Sova explained.