Personal Narrative: A Career As An Administrative Assistant

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.

Hard work and empathy were instilled in me at a young age and ultimately have guided my life decisions. I always knew I wanted a career doing something that involved helping people and left me feeling that I made a difference in their lives. I finished my undergraduate degree in Nutrition, but in the end lacked passion for the profession. Following a personal experience with an Occupational Therapist, I was able to see the positive outcome she had on my grandfathers recovery which lead me to pursue my career in occupational therapy.

The career I became interested in is a Physician’s Assistant, or a few people call them PAs. I became interested in this job in my sophomore year of high school. It all started when I attended the STEM fair after school one day. STEM fair is only offered to students who are in either the biomedical Stem academy or the engineer academy. At this fair, students tour around to different classrooms to acquire information on different careers. I attended the Physician’s Assistant one, where there was an actual PA to give information on what PAs achieve. For example, PAs examine patients for diseases, injuries and illnesses.

Prior to my current employment, I served as a lead Child Care Assistant for Fenton Public Schools. I remained within the Fenton School district for over 5 years. During this time, I worked within the district’s summer camp program promoting literacy and science to the students. I worked diligently within the districts after school care program at Tomek Eastern Elementary during the actual school year. It was here when I became the lead assistant as he was recognized as a leader amongst the staff for promoting such passion for student growth and learning.

I was a Behavioral Health Administrator at a Health Plan for a couple of years. My role included educating primary care providers on integrating care through collaboration and coordination with behavioral health providers. I worked with Kognito to provide training for primary care provides on behavioral health and substance abuse screening and interventions in primary care settings. I purchased the training for primary care providers and posted the training on the provider portal of the website. I also partnered with Psych Net to utilize their motivational interviewing video training to training primary care providers contracted with our health plan.

In the Fall of 2014 I became an RA, Resident Assistant, a position longed for since I entered as a student at Landmark College, a college for students with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. I went into the job aspiring to help other students and build upon the close knit and friendly community that was already in place. My job was to ensure the safety and security of all residents, refer students to appropriate services on campus, and run and plan programs alongside two other RA’s and a Resident Dean.

During my freshman year, my Residential Assistant pulled me aside and expressed to me that I have the potential to be a great RA. Before I was told that, I did not really pay much attention to the position and what RAs actually do. The dedication and hard work these individuals put forward to make the college life of many students much simpler and inspire them. Once I was told that I had the potential to help others and meet so many other people, it ignited a change within me. I now wanted to do the same things and simply help others while making relationships along the way. I had a strong relationship with my RA and he was always there to assist me in any situation. He mentored me through difficult situations and helped me grow as an individual.

On my search for a full-time job, I came across this ad. This ad led me to a career option, that I had not be aware of. I had never heard of an occupational therapy assistant. The picture demonstrated what they did, and it moved me. In fact, I wish I had known about them when my mom was ill. We were looking for a physical therapist, and they had said that it would not be a good fit for her. She was ill, but she wanted that independence. Perhaps, an occupational therapist would have been able to help her with that.

My contribution to NYC public schools children in education has been extensive. I first began working in NYC public schools as a speech pathologist in 1980. I would examine expressive and receptive language skills of children and through task analyses develop strategies of language acquisition. In short, I was able to gets students to improve their reading and writing skills in order to master grade level competencies. In my educational journey, I was recruited by Principal Louis Rapport to become an Assistant Principal. Principal Rapport ran an after-school program for teachers who wanted to become school leaders. I worked in coordinating summer programs at George Westinghouse Vocational High School in 1986. I worked hand in hand with the principal to build community partners for our school which offered twelve or more trade programs and internships for students ranging form optical to jewelry making. In 1989, I was selected to serve as Assistant Principal of Special Education at Automotive High School, with Principal Steve Gilbert, who has since passed away. Principal Gilbert much like Principal Rapport was my mentors in leadership within the educational arena. With the support of Principal Gilbert, I was able to go to a Harvard Graduate School of Education and participate in a Summer Seminar in 1995. This was the season of “Inclusion in Schools”. Principal Gilbert recommended me for a program, Assistant Principal to Principal Program

Hello class I am Brandon Jackson I’m currently living in beautiful Jacksonville, FL but I’m originally from

We don’t often get to tell our administrators how much we appreciate them and all that they do for our children. This is my opportunity to tell you that Heidi AbiNader is wise beyond her years, and always has been; I’ve known her for 35 years. She was born and raised in Sharpsville, PA., she’d attended school at Sharpsville, she’s been a teacher at Sharpsville, and now she’s broken the proverbial glass ceiling and become the first female principal in our district. A district that her father taught in as well.

My major at the Bryant&Stratton Online College is Business Administration and when I graduate I will pursue employment in the Administrative Assistant career field. In addition to this, Business Administrative courses can also lead students to work as sales Representatives or Customer Service Representatives. Administrative Assistant career fields need employees to oversee general office management responsibilities that include creating, managing, updating and supervising essential business records for corporations. This career field also requires employees to carry out employment tasks that aid employers with operating and maintaining their corporation in the global market .This presented business document shows the education requirements

An Administrative Assistant can be categorized into two types: One that may work in an educative environment or one that may work for a business in an office.

Upon graduating from William Penn University with my Bachelors of Arts Degree, I directly started my teaching career with the Sigourney Community School District. For the past nine years, I have worked as a special education teacher for grades 7-12. During this time, I worked very closely with my administrators and AEA core team members to ensure students were receiving FAPE. As my experiences grew, so did my leadership roles. As colleagues moved and left Sigourney, I quickly became the “experienced” special education teacher in my building. With this unofficial title and quality work ethic, my administrators placed me on the district and building leadership teams as the special education