They're little, but they're learning. They're learning to be their own person, and that can definitely get challenging, so I rely on my co-teacher a lot. My co-teacher, with whom I have been working for five years now, is truly one and the same. We have the same philosophy of education and beliefs, and we truly want our classroom to feel like a family. And even when the craziest things happen in our classroom, I know she has my back.

Teaching at Breakthrough is life-changing, empowering, and rewarding. It is an opportunity to work with interesting and diverse people. Teaching at Breakthrough is purposeful, joyful, intense, and exciting. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. It's revolutionary.

If you want to stay in the classroom, the opportunity is there. The opportunity is there if you want to get out of the classroom and try something new. The frequency of our professional development and the skills we learn during it are helping us see what the opportunities are, whether it's becoming a dean and focusing strictly on instruction or focusing on school culture.

What I like most about our administration is that we receive a lot of coaching. They come in, not to catch you, not to say, oh, you're doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, to help you grow as a teacher. They're coming in to see what you did right and to help you expand on that and maybe pick up the things that you could be doing a little bit better. They model for us how we work with our scholars.

We are trained to see the good in our scholars, to see how good they are and where they can get better. 

It's the pipeline that we want to develop that we want to keep and grow our own people because the people who know our kids best are the ones who are with them every day; they know the needs and wants and where we want to take the school long term, and I think it is a massive testament to our organization. There is a pathway to continue to grow in your roles here.