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The Douglas Drama presents Peter and the Starcatcher. Make sure to check out their last two performances on Friday and Saturday!

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Today’s Teacher Feature is English and Holocaust teacher Darren Levine: “I’ve always been interested in the subject [of Holocaust] since I first learned about it when I was in Hebrew school as a kid, so when I was in college, I took a few Holocaust classes. When the opportunity opened up for me to teach a few of the [Holocaust] courses, I said absolutely without hesitation. My first major in college was Journalism, but I wasn’t happy in my classes, and so I did a lot of reflection after my second year, thinking what do I really want to do with my life; what do I want to do as a career because I certainly didn’t see myself as a journalist. I asked myself what made me happy and I always looked to the summertime when I worked at sleep away camps. I figured how can I be a camp counselor and I saw education as a track for that. I loved English, writing and reading and so I decided I that I wanted to continue working with young people in an educational setting. I switched my major from Journalism to Secondary English Education. While it added an additional a year and a half to my college experience, I wasn’t too put down by that. I enjoyed college and campus life, and I really knew that I was going in the direction that I could follow passionately and could be really proud of, while continuing to go back to camp in the summer. If I'm listening to the radio, reading the news, reading novels or watching TV, I'm always thinking about school, especially my Holocaust class because even though it is based on this historical event, history is seen in our present day. So I’m constantly thinking about how these things relate back to the class and what I can bring up to the students to get their minds engaged on the reality of history and this present. We teach about the Holocaust to teach about tolerance. It’s important for all students to be exposed to this event because ultimately we want to inject hope in them because of the good stories that come from these tragedies. We help people understand that they can come back from a tragedy strengthened, as opposed to weakened because of the examples that we bring into class.”

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“My grandpa was one of the first immigrants in Brazil to get his pilot's license when he came from Switzerland, and he taught my grandma how to fly and my dad how to fly and his brothers how to fly. It's been a tradition that's been passed down since then through the different generations. Since I was little, I've been going in the plane with my dad and watching him fly. I’ve been his little co pilot since I was five. I just fell in love with being in the air, and now I'm getting my own license so I can do it myself and alone. When I have my private pilot's license, I might get my instrument pilot's license so I can fly more complex airplanes, but I'm not doing it for a career. I'm doing it as a hobby to just keep up with a family tradition.”

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“It’s always been a tradition in the family to play a sport, and football is probably the easiest for me, talent wise. I tried everything else like basketball, soccer and all that, but it just wasn’t working out. However, when I tried football, it hit me. I really messed with it heavy and that’s why I kept playing. I started playing tackle football around 12 years old, but I’ve always been around it since [I was] five. My cousin inspires me to play football and also players like Tyree Kinnel, because they have the same body stature as me and they play like how I want to play. They motivate me to be the best player I can be. One of my goals is yards, I want to get as [many] yards as I can. Tackles, I want to get as many tackles on the defensive side. I just want to be a better player to the team. When I was 12 or 13, I played for the Parkland Rangers and we went to Orlando to play at Disney. I scored a touchdown to win the game so that was a big memory of mine, and I’ll have that forever with me. The thought of getting better everyday, lifting, putting in work at practice, just everything you need to do to make yourself better, every aspect of football I use to motivate myself to be who I want to be. This is my third year being a student athlete in high school, and I think I maintain my [school work] pretty well. There’s no excuse to miss school. Being a student athlete is hard, but [it’s worth it], it’s a motivation.”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is Psychology teacher Dawn Tavares: “I’ve always wanted to have an impact on future generations and I also always wanted to be a mom, so having the same schedule as kids is great. I think the most rewarding thing about being a teacher is getting to have an impact. It’s really getting to have those everyday interactions with the kids and getting to have the students come back and tell me how they applied what I taught them. When my students come back and tell me they majored in psychology, it makes me feel fulfilled to know that they take what I teach them and they apply it in their life. I think students don’t realize how much impact their actions have until it’s too late or how much they could have an impact on other people, so [my advice is to] work hard, apply yourself, and don’t give up. I love hearing from past students  because I always want to know where they’re at. I love seeing them beyond just a student and beyond the classroom. I don’t get asked the questions, “Why do you teach this? What am I ever going to use this for?” because I know how psychology applies to their everyday lives. Students letting me know what they’re doing now and how much of an impact what we taught them had, those are the moments that make me really want to stick with [teaching] and remind me why I do what I do.”

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“My dad was a colonel in the army, so we had to move to Chile when I was seven. I lived there for two years and then I came back to North America. My dad still lived in South America, but my parents wanted me to have a normal childhood in Parkland. I would visit my dad for two months during the summer, but when I would visit him it was weird. For example in Colombia, we would have drivers and bodyguards, so if my dad went to work and I would walk my dog in the middle of the day, the bodyguard would have to come and walk with me. If I went to the airport, there would be a bodyguard; if I went to eat, there would be a bodyguard. It's been about eight years now that I’ve lived without him. Now, I see him maybe once a month. I’ve gotten so used to it, that it’s weird to think that  most people do live with their fathers.”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is English teacher Chelsea Briggs: “I love helping people and I know I’m really good at it. I wake up everyday and don’t have to stress about going to work; it’s something I genuinely enjoy doing. [I thought about maybe doing] hair because I love to color my own hair and I thought it might be fun to color other peoples’ hair, but I really always wanted to be a teacher so it was always my goal in life, [and] now this is my third year teaching. I also love hula hooping! All the music festivals I’ve been to, [I’ve seen people hula hooping] and I wanted to challenge myself and try something new. There’s a whole community of hula hoopers. I thought that this should be exposed to more kids because I didn’t find out about it until I was in my early 20s. I love it and I have a passion for it, and I wanted to share that love and flow community to others. It’s great exercise and its super cool!”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is Personal Finance and Geography teacher Michael Mauro: “[It’s so rewarding] when my students are engaged in something and they’re excited to learn. For example we did resumes earlier this year and one of my students came up to me and said, “Coach! My resume got me the interview and I got the job!” That to me has been the most rewarding thing so far this year. I let [my students] know that my door is never shut to them. If it’s two, three, four, five years later, and I’m still here and they want to come back and ask a question, I’d be more than happy to help them with it. I always wanted to help people. In my past job I was a mortgage broker, but it was not very rewarding, and I wanted to do something that felt more profound, that I would be able to help people with and it would have a long lasting impression versus making them feel good for just that day. A month or two ago, my students would’ve never wanted to check stocks on their phones and now they’re asking permission to look at what a stock price is doing, so that’s fun for me seeing that they like what I teach and seeing that they are engaged in it. I became a sub in February of 2018, and then I’ve been a full time teacher since Coach May resigned in April of last year. I love it here. I feel like I am supposed to be here and I went from subbing here every Friday, to track coach, to cross country coach, to full time teacher. As my students and athletes grow, I kind of grow with them. I love being able to teach all freshmen one day, and then all upperclassmen the next day; it keeps my job entertaining and interesting. I’m learning just as much from freshman as they’re learning from me, same thing with my upperclassmen, but it’s unique to deal with people that are new to the school, like I am too. Doors have just opened up for me and it’s just kind of snowballed, and that’s why I really believe I’m supposed to be here. It wouldn’t have happened the way it did if I wasn’t supposed to be here for a reason.”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is English teacher Debra Jacobson: “I try to get people to think in different ways rather than what’s in front of their eyes or what’s literal to become deeper thinkers. I want them to analyze and to be informed. I do try to tap into everybody’s creativity, which is different in everybody. This year I have a lot of kids who are in band, so music comes up a lot. Basically to get people to think outside the box, sometimes you need to make them a little uncomfortable, and I’m kind of good at that. I pose questions that make them uncomfortable, or make them really think because that’s when we grow. I think [having a relationship with my students] is the most important thing. It’s kind of hard in the beginning of the year because they don’t know me and I don’t know them, so building that vibe, that connection takes time, but once you have it, it’s really good. My dad was a teacher, my uncle was a teacher, my mother-in-law is a teacher, one of my sisters-in-law is a teacher, so teaching is something that runs in the family. I remember my dad taking me to school with him when I was really young and I just thought it was the greatest thing ever. My undergraduate degree is actually in business and finance, but I realized it wasn’t for me. When I went back for my masters, I went into education. I think a lot of people say that the students have changed, but I don’t think you guys have changed all that much. I think it’s more how willing and adaptable we are to change. What I do more now than I did in the beginning, is that i have fun.”

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“[The arts have] been a way of self expression in places where it was hard for me to express myself. It’s pretty much a way for me to bond with other people, and a way to enjoy things that I couldn’t before. It helped me accept myself more and helped me find beauty in things that I couldn’t before, like if I disliked a feature about myself, I would draw different people with said feature because then it would make me feel a little less alone. I used to do that when I was younger and it was a great way of coping with loneliness. I have auditioned for Louder Than A Bomb which is a spoken word poetry compilation. I didn’t get in, but I was a cheerleader [to my teammates]. I went to every single show, I helped give advice, and I critiqued all their pieces. There were so many different people with different stories and experiences, and it kinda helped me get a better understanding of the world around me. I made lots of new friends and I became closer with the ones I was already friends with. With classes like math, I wasn’t able to succeed as well as other kids, but with topics like English, I was always able to be steady with that, so it’s always something that I’ve found I can do. I feel like without art and music things would be so dull, not just in my life but in the world in general. I feel like it helped me embrace certain things and it [helped] me appreciate the world more because I can see that so many types of people can make something so beautiful.”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is American History teacher Greg Pittman: “I won the Golden Paintbrush Award for Teacher of the Month for September. I think all of the teachers here at Douglas all work hard, so I was very surprised that I had gotten it. When they came in with the award, I was thinking that it was a joke, because I joke sometimes that I need a broom to ride as the wicked witch. I was surprised that I had gotten it, but do I care about my students, and try to work hard to connect with my students and get them motivated about American history. 
I’m a career changer, so I didn’t always teach. I’ve worked a couple years in politics and banking, but I chose to become a teacher. I think to be a teacher it means that we have an opportunity to impact our young people and we have an opportunity, with the experiences that we have, to help them and show them things that we did wrong and things that we know they can do right to help them grow. Not only are we there to help them learn the history, English, or math that they are working on in their class, but also show them how important they are in our society. They are going to be our future leaders, whether it’s in our town, county, state, or country, and they can have a huge impact on it.”

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“This summer I got to go to a program called the Cleveland Clinic Summer Scholar Program, and while I was at this program, I felt so fulfilled because I got to see several surgeries, which is something that I thought I would never get to see until I got into medical school. I had the opportunity to see a megacolon and got to see open heart surgeries, and for me, that was just really eye-opening and made me realize that this is truly something that I want to do; my dream of becoming a doctor was realized. I work very hard in school and push myself to take a lot of challenging classes. Everything that I have accomplished thus far, has been due to my self-motivation.”

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Today’s Teacher Feature is Spanish teacher Juletta Matlock: “One of the most rewarding things about being a teacher is when you can actually have a conversation with a student that’s not necessarily in the topic that you teach. There’s so much today that distracts students from having a real conversation; sometimes they forget how to communicate. Even though there’s a big age gap, when a student is mature enough to carry on a conversation with an adult, that’s so rewarding. You can teach that student, but you can also become familiar and just be a human with that person. It doesn’t have to be that ‘I’m on one level you’re on another level,’ because we’re just humans together and age is the only thing that separates us. When my students learn Spanish, it warms my heart and makes me feel like that’s my child, just like when you teach your child to brush their teeth, or to ride a bicycle. It makes me feel like they’re growing and they’re actually doing something. There’s a first time for everything and I get to be part of that first time when they speak that word in Spanish or they learn that concept. I use my own terms of endearment that I used on my kids and grandkids at home. I use it in the classroom because I see those kids often and it’s always worked for me. I just show [them] that I genuinely care for them, and not just here for a paycheck. Yes, I need to eat, I need to pay my bills, but I genuinely care for my students. I want them to do well, but I also want them to know that it’s not just about Spanish either. If you need a listening ear, hey I got pretty big ears I’ll listen; if you need me to comment on something, I got a pretty big mouth I can comment too. I just want them to know that I’m here for them.”


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