Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.

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Who knew that I would one day look back with fond nostalgia to my elementary school days when the teacher blew a whistle in the classroom and we all practiced ducking and covering under our desks as a response to the coming nuclear war?

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Outside of the classroom my work in education has revolved around systemic transformational change, in the realm of teacher education and support.

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