hi I mean I'm here hams
I just passed my junior year at Mason
High School and I'm both screwed off I
was Hanna's 11th grader intervention
specialist but my most things in life is
music I love Tommy does the pentatonic
and I love Dolly Parton she's a classic
anyway one of the things that's really
unique about Hannah's her opportunities
to travel and experience different
concerts Hannah's been to eight
different concerts already in her life
you know what was your favorite concert
so far hey what's with a bunch of
concert it come on no one and
there was my favorite because yeah those
are some of the special effects over
there but that sounds really cold out so
many people all in the same place all
excited to experience the exact same
thing one of the things that Hannah
taught me this year was the importance
of getting to know the whole person or
the complete person you know Hannah's
had so many cool opportunities in her
life and I think she's done more in her
first 18 years and I've done in all 33
of mine so far all right so Hannah and I
also have lots of things that we love in
common pizza for sure
mushrooms are gross but working with
kids absolutely I've known for a very
long time that teaching is what I was
meant to do in life I really like
working with children working with
students and watching their growth in
progress over time and I think you know
having the opportunity to work with
Hannah has been a great pleasure for me
and Hannah I wanted to know what's
something that you enjoy doing I'm
working with kids kids playing
misty face bothers us when we play must
be way about that yeah absolutely he is
right about that one of the coolest
things for Hannah is that she volunteers
regularly at the Mason community center
in the Kids Corner she does it every
Thursday and Friday as well for the
family night out it's such a
cool opportunity for Hannah to get
involved there and that kind of
volunteer expertise for her is a great
opportunity what is one of the things
that you learned how to do handed this
year that helps you to become a teacher
the kid at a kid corner yeah absolutely
and Hannah is really involved in school
both as a student and kind of as an
active member of the student body she's
a member of the Young Women's Club and
through all that volunteering through
the Mason community center she's
actually earned the privilege to be in
the young women's Honor Society she's
also a member of stew go this year and
the Mason Drama Club as far as as a
student Hannah is involved in lots of
things including the Komet zone and also
teacher academy those are all kind of
ways that kind of help her get involved
hannah is also what we call an advocate
for inclusion Hannah what exactly is
inclusion yeah absolutely and actually
understood or it highlights five key
benefits to inclusion they're a pair for
us right now it's differentiated
instruction supported teaching reducing
a stigma effectively using resources and
then having high expectations for all
one of the things that I think is most
beneficial for us to think about at the
high school level is the idea of
reducing stigma hannah has done such a
great job of being included in her
school and doing the things that she
enjoys doing that her typical peers and
enjoy doing and I think it's really
important for all of us to kind of come
to the table recognizing who a person is
recognizing their individual strengths
and their interests and making sure that
those are parts of of kind of who they
are and what they represent another
thing about working with Hannah has
taught me the value of two very simple
words but and yet
yeah yeah absolutely so the idea of yet
shows that that growth happens over time
so it might be I can't do this yet or I
haven't figured this out yet when we
keep that idea in mind it shows us that
this is always a progression and it's
always something that we're working
towards with the idea of but it gives us
an opportunity to really recognize the
idea of trying new things and trying new
strategies that might work so it might
be that doesn't work but we can do this
instead or hey that road was a dead end
but we could turn around and take this
route out those are a couple different
ways that might help us to really
understand how it is that we can work
beneficially for everybody
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