09/01/2026
Robinson brings experience to the classroom at SWC
Anna Robinson brings more than a decade of teaching experience to Southwest Christian Schools this year, where she will teach 6th grade math and 6th-8th grade English.
Anna’s teaching career began in 2000, when she taught all subjects to sixth- through eighth-grade students at Ocheyedan Christian School. Since then, she has had the opportunity to teach or substitute for nearly every grade level and subject. She has taught at Brewster Elementary and substituted at Worthington Public Schools, but much of her career has been spent teaching middle school at Worthington Christian School.
Her experience outside the classroom has also shaped the way she approaches teaching. Anna spent some years working at Main Street Kids, a family-owned store, and believes the combination of her experiences in different schools and in the working world has helped her better prepare students for life beyond the classroom.
Anna graduated from Northwestern College in Orange City in 2000. She said becoming a teacher wasn’t necessarily something she had planned from the beginning. Instead, it was a path others helped her recognize.
“I knew it was a way I could use my God-given talents to serve the Lord,” she said.
Working with children had already become a regular part of Anna’s life before she entered the teaching profession. During her early college years, she visited approximately 2,000 children in schools as a dairy princess, helped to start Children in Worship at her church, and was involved in numerous youth activities as a 4-H state officer.
Faith continues to be an important part of Anna’s approach to teaching. One of her favorite parts of working at a Christian school is having the opportunity to share God’s truth with students and help them develop a strong foundation for their faith.
She also enjoys those moments when a lesson comes together and students are actively engaged in learning. Some of her favorite memories from previous years involve loading students onto a bus and taking them somewhere special. Her bus license allowed her to turn classroom lessons into memorable experiences outside the school walls.
Perhaps the most rewarding part of teaching, however, comes years later, when former students have grown into young adults and stop to visit or say hello.
Anna and her husband, Neil, have four sons. Neil is an operations manager for an animal health company and works as a basketball skills trainer. Their oldest son, Eli, 22, is a senior at Dordt. Coyer, 19, is a freshman at Dordt. Their two youngest sons are students at SWC: Kolten is a sophomore and Tytus is a 5th grader.
The family enjoys spending time together, and Anna is always ready for an opportunity to travel, whether for work, missions, or fun. She has visited many states and several countries over the years, but she also enjoys being home and supporting her family in their various activities.
One of Anna’s unique experiences came during her time as a Minnesota dairy princess. A National Geographic photographer spent eight days following her during the Nobles County Fair and the Minnesota State Fair as part of a project on county fairs. One of the photos of her was of her having her likeness carved in butter.
That experience was quite memorable in itself, but later that photo of Anna became a clue on the television game show Jeopardy! The experience was something she never expected when she answered a phone call at home and was asked for permission to use her picture. The clue’s answer had to do with the medium used to create likenesses of Minnesota dairy princesses at the State Fair.
This year, Anna is carrying a verse from Psalm 71 with her into the classroom: “Let me proclaim your power to this new generation.” It is a fitting reminder of the role she hopes to play as she works with another generation of students at Southwest Christian Schools.
