This article profiles Toni Billingsley, an African-American teacher teaching Spanish classes at the Academy of Communications and Technology Charter School in the West Garfield Park section of Chicago. This article also describes her unique teaching methods. Billingsley uses clever puns, outright slapstick, sly references to black popular culture in her teaching regimen. She claims that fun is an indespensable ingredient in her methods as she can not be teaching her best when her students are bored. Billingsley, who claims that she came from a dysfunctional family, emerged from her troubled youth to become a teacher who has a double major in Spanish and psychology. She attributes her success to her grandfather who taught her the importance of education and the value of being good to others.