Los Angeles Times Content Solutions is working on profiles of teachers who inspire their students. Tell us who deserves to be noted! Teachers can be from elementary, middle, and/or high school. Feel free to nominate more than one teacher.

Pulling focus on Ariana Hoshino
While other students were typing up their essays, a then thirteen-year-old Ariana Hoshino was bent over a stop motion animation of "Flowers for Algernon". With her mom’s old still-life camera, Hoshino was coaxing movement out of still images and stories out of clay. ...