Do you ever wonder how you got to where you got?
I got average grades in school was no superstar anything. And yet...my senior year, I was chosen to head up the Year Book Committee and got the lead role in the school musical!
My mother said "Girls don't need to go to college. They end up just getting married and having babies anyway!" And yet...I not only went to college, I was the first in my family to get a college degree, not to mention a master's degree.
My first semester of college, I failed the math class. And yet...I went on to end with a 3.2 grade point average!
My first job out of college was as an Educational Assistant with Dane County Special Education. The Director, Ken McRoberts, did not have a teaching job for me. And yet...by the end of the first year I had my own classroom!
I planned on teaching for three years, getting my life certification and then doing as my mom had predicted...stay home and have babies! And yet...35 years later I am still working full time in education.
I always planned on making the right decisions. Instead...I have settled for accepting the belief that I think I have made the best decision for the time.
Education has been my journey, not only as a career but as a personal trip. And very little of my education, in the end, has taken place inside a classroom or been directed by a certified teacher! I want to say that I have been influenced by powerful people - not perhaps all in the eyes of the world but certainly in my eyes. And not all of them as positive experiences but certainly memorable ones! Every book you read, every speaker you listen to, every boss you work for, every person you work next to, your friends and family, children and adults all are part of the learning journey.
By all predictions based on my lack luster performance as a K-12 student and lack of family interest in higher education, I shouldn't have gone where I went! But I did it anyway!
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