Mrs. Galina Papkova is the Italian teacher at Shepherd-Dixmor Preparatory School. She is of Italian and Russian descent, and from Boston, Massachusetts. She is best friends with the English teacher, Amanda Quincy and the science teacher Mr. Swanson. She has a somewhat heavy Boston accent, and is always very nice to her students. She is one of the few teachers at that school who Carl Degrasse Dawkins, Jacob Schmitt, Hunter Jones, Justin Paul Florio, Candace Claire Baker, Deandre Drew Davis and Ethan Allen Fernandez are all in agreement about liking, as it's pretty much impossible to NOT like her. She can be strict every now and then, but is even more nice than she is strict. She is fluent in English, Italian, Russian, and possibly even a few other languages. Her relation to Vladimir Papkov is unknown. She is additionally the art teacher at the school. She is also married and has three sons. Two of her three sons attend Shepherd-Dixmor Preparatory School and play varsity football for Graham Allen.