Graduation Speech: Return To Barnegat

Doing field experience at St.Mary’s Preschool has taught me a lot not only about the educational system but about myself as well. I’ve learned over these couple of months that in order to become a wonderful teacher, you have to have an enormous amount of patience and dedication. Teaching isn’t an easy profession and through this experience, my respect for my teachers have grown tremendously. Many students often take their teachers for granted but they don't realize what they do for us.

Walker-Davidson announced, “I am thrilled to serve the district and the community in this new capacity. For the past four years I have served as the ABC district middle school principal and I feel that has provided me with a great foundation for moving forward. I am excited to work with the administrative team and staff in order to continue the academic growth within our school district. It is my personal goal to increase the graduation rate, test scores, and the availability of career readiness programs, as well as obtaining and training expert staff members.” Dr. Walker-Davidson went on to explain her mission for the school district to be: success driven, education focused, and student centered. I plan on carrying out this mission with expert educators, dedicated staff members, and community involvement.”

As an experienced and energetic teacher at Picadome Elementary for the past 17 years, I am committed to high quality education for all children despite gender, socio-economic levels, race, ethnicities, and learning capabilities. I have sought leadership opportunities including serving on the SBDM and being chairperson of both the Budget and Needs Assessment committees. I worked closely with the Picadome leadership team and other SBDM members to ensure that budget decisions were based on achievement data and would increase student learning.

I interviewed Julie Holt, Principal of Monticello Elementary School (MES). MES has 16 teachers, and 247 kids grades K-6. The school classified employees include: 4 kitchen staff, 2 custodians, 5 reading and math interventionist support, 1 library media teacher, 2 computer teachers, and 2 office assistants. Six of the sixteen teachers has less than ten years’ experience.

Spending time in Ms. Gibson’s 1st grade class at Birney Elementary School in the Long Beach Unified School District presented many fascinating learning opportunities. Prior to my experience at this school, review of the STAR report and the School Accountability Report provided interesting background information on the school. While background information set a certain expectation at a school level, it did not offer any insight into my classroom experience. Consequently, I did not have any expectations on what I would learn by working with an experienced educator. Even though I did not have any specific expectations, I did learn a few tips on classroom management and teaching that I plan to take forward. Additionally, my early fieldwork experience assisted in helping me discover my weakest areas in respect to teaching, to focus on in my education.

Every day teachers overcome obstacles in the classroom, problem-solve on the go, address failures and challenges, work to create better ways to engage students, and improve methods of educating. Yet, so many of these moments, these everyday victories and triumphs go unnoticed. Teachers are constantly working to support their students and create more accessible and diverse opportunities. In our small district, many of these new ideas and efforts are personally and individually spearheaded by the teachers themselves, who lead, implement, and follow through to make their vision a reality. Thankfully community partners, parents, businesses and individuals readily and graciously offer support and resources to support teachers and students.

On Monday,October 14, 2013 at 7:00 P.M., I attended the Bradford Area School District school board meeting at Floyd C. Fretz Middle School in the large group instruction room. This meeting was important for the teachers, students, and the schools in the district. It provided information that correlated to the material in class and a perspective on what situations as a future teacher I may experience.

Hey Lisa, My name is Eric Jefferson. This is my first semester at UMD and I'm enjoying every minute of it. I'm a transfer student from Prince Georges Community College and I would love to take your class next semester, but unfortunately I didn't have time to audition this week. Is it possible If I can audition for your class next tuesday

The 2016-2017 school year has been one with mixed emotions. Public education has been faced with its biggest challenges and most tumultuous times. It is by God’s grace as an educational leader that we have been able to stay true to ourselves and remain on course in fulfilling our vision to better serve and meet the needs of our most important asset, the students in our respective district.

As a member of Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Leaders Engaging in Advance Discoveries (LEAD), were are expected to complete eighty hours of service over the course of two academic school years. Each semester VCU LEAD students are required to complete twenty hours of service, ten-community engagement hours and ten leadership hours. I believe that having a requirement of participation hours pushes students to get involved on VCU’s campus and the greater Richmond area, introduces time management, as well as influences them to reflect on their new found experiences.

Hello Region 6. I am Savannah Schisler, a sophomore from Littlestown High School, and I am the best candidate for your 2015-2016 Treasurer. I want to prove to you that I am a leader, and I want to lead our region to be better and more connected than we have ever been. For our region, I would like to promote the Business Achievement Awards, as I am currently working on the third level. I believe that the BAA can help FBLA members to grow and help their schools and communities grow to be better as well. The BAA also provide great opportunities that I believe all FBLA members should have access to, and in the end, the BAA would help us grow as a region. Also, I would seek to help with the financing of the winter banquet for our region. I believe that if, as a region, we could all get together and connect with each other one last time before the

We're excited to welcome you to the 2015-2016 school year!!!! We hope that you've enjoyed and are continuing to enjoy these final weeks of summer; however, we know you're just as anxious as we are to see your learners sitting in our classrooms!!!!

The conference began with a keynote speech delivered by Cathy S. Tooley, the President of Tools of Success and a former public educator and administrator. I decided to participate in her lecture because I wanted to gain more perspectives about American education system and its problems. Her thought-provoking and engaging presentation looked at the education system as it currently works, but not in the manner which attempts to blame, but rather stating the truth, evaluating what might have been done wrong and encouraging to bring teachers and communities to the table so they could share their thoughts and ideas regarding the issues happening at schools every day. The presentation was definitely worth my time as I could understand some of the sad truths about schools and the relationships or rather its lack between teachers, administrators, school boards and parents. The thought which truly struck a chord was when she said that "It is

Today I had the pleasure to meet and interview Ms. Merlino. She is a teacher at Rosemont Elementary, she has been teaching kinder garden for 32 years. She started teaching in DISD and then moved to Coppell ISD. However, after a few years being there she decided that her heart was in Dallas, so she moved back and started working for the DISD once again. She mentioned that seeing the children grow brings joy to her, as well as the love each student develops for learning throughout the year. On the other hand, some of the challenges include not being able to meet the huge expectations from the district, and the difficulty to balance the needs of each student due to the lack of help and attention at home.

It is almost the end of the year and the students have accomplished so much. I am fortunate enough to witness exploration and creativity every day with your children. The growth I’ve seen so far is remarkable! Shy little ones who barely spoke back in September are now approaching me and telling me all about their weekend and their best play date party EVER!