“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.” Bob Marley The easy life was the way of life. I can honestly say that as a young woman, high school and college was just something I thought I had to do. So, I did. I graduated from Fayette County High. Georgia State University came next. Both because I thought it would be the easiest route to the finish line. Soon after graduation, I joined my husband’s trucking company and began a boring job of working with numbers and accounts. As time went on, my first child was born and I was fortunate enough to be able to quit my boring job and became a full-time stay-at-home mother. By the way, this was much more difficult than I thought. The day to day events of raising
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He asked me to serve in a school-wide position: English Language Arts Curriculum Teacher Leader, ELA/CTL. I accepted and began a role that allowed me to encompass the whole school into being MY children. One of the challenges of this position has been trying to help different grade levels with problems they were facing. They needed to integrate tier I strategies to solve or prevent reading problems. Grade levels also needed to collect data on using these strategies in order to see if the strategies were effective. This prompted a new question. How can I help teachers make sure that each child has a standard of excellence that is pervasive and sustainable throughout the school? In the words of the Thomas University handbook, they need a leader in our school, who would facilitate the design and implementation of sustained, intensive, and job-embedded professional learning. This is my passion. My true passion. I want to teach children, my school’s children, my district’s children, to read. But to ensure that I am reaching more than 20 children, I need to help all teachers. Thomas University’s Teacher Leader Specialist Degree will give me the knowledge I need to help other teachers. I will be on the path to making sure that each child has a standard of excellence that is pervasive and sustainable throughout the
He asked me to serve in a school-wide position: English Language Arts Curriculum Teacher Leader, ELA/CTL. I accepted and began a role that allowed me to encompass the whole school into being MY children. One of the challenges of this position has been trying to help different grade levels with problems they were facing. They needed to integrate tier I strategies to solve or prevent reading problems. Grade levels also needed to collect data on using these strategies in order to see if the strategies were effective. This prompted a new question. How can I help teachers make sure that each child has a standard of excellence that is pervasive and sustainable throughout the school? In the words of the Thomas University handbook, they need a leader in our school, who would facilitate the design and implementation of sustained, intensive, and job-embedded professional learning. This is my passion. My true passion. I want to teach children, my school’s children, my district’s children, to read. But to ensure that I am reaching more than 20 children, I need to help all teachers. Thomas University’s Teacher Leader Specialist Degree will give me the knowledge I need to help other teachers. I will be on the path to making sure that each child has a standard of excellence that is pervasive and sustainable throughout the