TAMPA, Fla. – Lee Elementary School teacher Lexi Guice’s Superman socks may not have super powers, but her students would likely argue otherwise.

The fifth grade reading and writing teacher donned her super socks earlier this month for a lesson about the importance of helping others, regardless of race or age. She was discussing the Holocaust as an example when two cars crashed outside of the school, and the class rushed to the window, The Tampa Tribune reports.

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That’s when Guice turned the day’s lesson from a discussion into a demonstration.

“Mrs. Messina, Mrs. Messina, can you watch my kids?” the 23-year-old asked the teacher next door. “I gotta go!”

Guice rushed to the scene, where she helped one motorist bandage their bleeding head before finding another woman still trapped in her car.

“My knee! Someone help! My knee!” the woman cried as Guice yanked open the driver’s-side door to pull the woman from the vehicle, which was leaking gasoline onto the road.

She then helped the woman limp to safety and address a large gash on her knee, according to the news site.

“It was an impactful moment,” said Messina, who watched with students from the classroom’s second story window. “We were able to discuss the correlation between someone stopping on the side of the road to help another person with the Holocaust. I asked them, ‘Where does this happen within you? Are you the kind that keeps going when you see someone in need? Or do you stop?’ We all have it in us, some just have it more than others.”

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The woman who injured her knee in the crash, Tiffany Potter, said she was thankful for Guice’s help.

“I was kind of zoned in just on her, there was a lot going on,” Tiffany said. “I was constantly asking her if I was OK and she sat there and talked to me and gave me water.”

Guice calmed Potter enough to call her mother, who was hysterical.

“Tiffany was hyperventilating, so worried about her car. I kept having to reassure her that it’s just an item,” Guice said. “I kept telling her mom, ‘She is OK,’ but she was screaming.”

The Tribune reports Guice, a University of South Florida graduate, has taught at Lee Elementary for two years. Most recently, she’s worked with students to start a tutoring program for children at the Metropolitan Ministries school.

“Her dream was to help the kids step away from school service projects and go a little deeper within themselves,” Messina said. “She brought this need to the students’ attention.”

Students also pointed out the irony of their teacher’s super socks.

From the Tribune:

To Guice’s fifth grade students, all witnesses to the event, their teacher was a hero.

“No, I just did what I needed to do,” she told them when she returned to class.

But after they pointed to her Superman socks, she reconsidered.

“Okay, I’m a hero.”