My internship is working with Regina Kruglyak, the K-12 Science Resource Teacher. Now, I am not a science person and anyone who knows me knows this. I have struggled with it in every form, chemistry, biology, psychics, engineering, etc. At a meeting while speaking with other office members, I was asked what made me choose this as my internship. After explaining my connection to Regina, I said that I knew I wanted to work in education and that I saw myself as a teacher, but I also wanted to explore other options, i.e, district level work. I then was asked what kind of teacher I was interested in being. I said I wanted to work with kids my age and that writing was my personal passion, so teaching English. This caught the attention of the ELA department and after looking at the work I have done and speaking to me, a summer internship is being opened up to me! I like this work. Doing it feels so different from school work. Here I know I am making an impact and giving a lot of students a voice and allowing their needs to be addressed directly in the curriculum. Not only that, but my voice is valued and respected far more than I have ever felt. Although I know this is a once in a lifetime experience and that as I get older I won’t be able to to this work, I have hope that I have helped open a door for student voice to have a place in the district. Most adults I have spoken to are interested in interning High Tech students in the future and seeing in general how students can more actively participate in creating their education. A big struggle for me is feeling like I am not making progress, or I'm only making progress for progress sake. Knowing that the work you are doing will ACTUALLY make a difference feels a lot better than doing work just so you can get to a different place. So yeah, consciously moving forward instead of a perceived stand-still feels amazing.
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