Time Well Spent

This has been such an amazing journey. I am truly grateful and blessed to have been able to push myself with the help of friends, my professors, and my colleagues. I have many memories and great things I have learned and accomplished, but the top three things that I feel are my deeply felt learnings from this program is:

-Gaining knowledge of the different and plentiful resources that can help me with advocacy, as well as being able to give these resources to others is one of the greatest things I have gained from this program.

-My wonderful professors that I had throughout this program, who helped me to be a better researcher, advocate, and educator. I am truly amazed at how much they cared for our education. It makes me feel honored to have had the opportunity to be taught by these wonderful educators.

-Lastly, I am truly thankful for all of the connections I made with colleagues. It is with your help that I was able to reach my fullest potential, and learn from one another’s experiences to bring to life the projects we did throughout this program. I thank Dr. Embree for all of her positivity and help. You are truly amazing!

One of my long-term goals is to become a trainer/educator for up and coming educators. I have always wanted to teach and mentor those who have the same passion as I do for the early childhood education field, but want someone to teach them who has gone through the ups, the downs, and the experiences to help them in this field be better and great educators.

My farewell message to my colleagues is to always strive for greatness. We have come so far, and we were all there for one another through this academic journey. What ever you set your minds to, just know that you can do it, no matter what. To my wonderful instructor, Dr. Lisa Embree, you really have been such a monumental tool in all of our learning and success. Personally, I was nervous in the beginning, but your guidance has given me the confidence I needed to succeed, and I thank you so much for everything you have done.

Some inspirational quotes that I love that I feel would be inspirations to you all as well are:

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

Good luck to everyone, we did it!!! C/O 2015