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I now work in Florida’s Osceola County public schools where I am on the leadership team of Kissimmee Middle School - a title one school (schools which have a high population of low income families and in turn receive lots of extra supplemental funding, all students receive supplemental funding).
On the leadership team of Kissimmee: I’m an instructional coach for teachers, the Dean of Students where I handle behavior issues with students and families, and the MTSS coordinator - a role required under education law where I monitor/track student data across the school and then coordinate interventions and individualized education plans (IEPs) for students who are underperforming.
In my first year where I oversaw Math, scores went down in every category at my school except math which went up one point. In my 2nd year, I oversaw all of STEM where we made major gains in both categories and became the highest gaining school in the whole county/district for that category.
I have devoted my life’s work to solving challenges that seem insurmountable to most, to uplifting students and classrooms that society and our GOP state legislature have written off. So when I read that a special election would be held in my community for a vacant House seat following a Trump cabinet appointment, I saw an opportunity to tackle a challenge that I am uniquely qualified to take on and conquer.
Before our launch, we were warned by Doubting Thomases that the Democratic base was burnt out, defeated, and apathetic in the aftermath of Kamala Harris’s defeat. We were told that we would be hard pressed to find people who would donate and or volunteer on this race. They told us to give up.
My belief then and ever more so now is that when the chips are down and we’re backed into a corner is when we fight the hardest—and now I am vindicated every day as Democrats from across the US pour in to fight with us.
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