About

In 2011, I remembered sitting in traffic on I-95, dreading my one-hour commute to work while listening to the familiar cadence of the same six songs repeatedly playing on the radio. I loved working with my clients as a Coordinator for a mental health facility, but I questioned every other aspect of my life. Then, one day a client said he wished he had the opportunity to learn the way he did in high school. While everyone else took his words as just a statement one should cast to the side, I took his words to heart. The ride home this particular day was filled with visions and concepts. The hour trip seemed to be only minutes.

 

The following day as the clients arrived, I remember welcoming them to my classroom instead of the table, seats, and television from which they usually came. Some were happy, and others cried, but everyone enjoyed each activity for the day. That evening when I turned off the lights and locked the door for the day, I smiled while walking to my car with the thought I could do this for the rest of my life. The "few minutes" hour-long car ride lasted for an entire year.

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Education is more than a career to me. I have dreamed, encouraged, laughed, and even cried with my students. Over the years, I have provided advice, taught many lessons, and watched children I have been entrusted with grow into young men and women. When people refer to teachers, I know the term has a social stigma of an individual who stands in front of a class and shares content from a book. Yet, as someone who has chosen this path, I know we are much more. We cultivate, groom, and speak life to individuals who, in many cases, we only see for one year of their lives. 

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If you want to know who I am, know I am an educator.