As I prepare for the 2013-14 school year, I am overly excited about bringing my summer experiences into my classroom. I feel as though I have been training for a marathon and its “going down”,  August 26th (1st day for students). I’ve been training with the best educators in North Carolina all summer long and all I can see ahead for my students are absolutely positive experiences.

This summer I was the student and ALL of you were my teachers! This experience will have a positive impact on my students because it had such a positive impact on me!

I am late posting this blog assignment because I kept trying to figure out an “AHA” moment…then it hit me…my entire fellowship has been an “AHA” moment. I can’t narrow it down to just one thing in particular because there are truly TOO many! This experience as a whole has been enlightening. I look back at the teacher I was last year to the teacher I have become throughout this experience; it’s indescribable. So, what is my “AHA” moment….becoming a “Kenan Fellow”! Being a Kenan Fellow has allowed me to see things through a different lense and has forever changed my way of teaching.