Laura Luker is in her third year as the library teacher at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley, MA. The school serves around 500 students in grades K-12. All students learn Mandarin Chinese through the immersion model. High school students also participate in the International Baccalaureate program in addition to their Chinese language requirements. Prior to teaching at PVCICS, Laura was the library teacher at Duggan Middle School in Springfield, MA for four years and taught English and reading to middle and high school students for several years before that.