This is pretty cool. I'm proud to announce that I am now currently enrolled in a Master's program through Ashford University. I'm working on receiving my MA in Teaching and Learning with Technology!
For those of you that don't know who I am... I'm Carly. You can just call me Carly.
I graduated from OSU, with flying colors (a 3.7 GPA) and now I am furthering my education at Ashford.
I am quite ambitious with my schooling (well, that's just obvious), and always have been. School has just been the place that has made the most sense. I had an extremely challenging and unstable home life. Something about the routine, the regular schedules, and the constant learning made me realize I felt more comfortable studying in the library or in my classrooms than I did at home. I've loved school. Always have. And I was good at it. I like giving something my all that makes me feel like it's giving something back to me. The more I learn, the more I carry with me. I feel educated and fulfilled. Like the books give me something, simply by me giving them a piece of my time. Breaking them down inside my mind.
It all makes sense.
In other news, since it's been so long since my last post (three years?!?!? Really Carly?!?) that I have a lot to catch up on.
I am currently the head retention and outreach program coordinator for Peninsula College's TRIO Upward Bound. Yes this is the same program I graduated high school from. Yes my amazing now boss/role-model/mentor/mother-figure hired me. And it's a dream. I love what I do. I work with first generation, low-income students. I show them education is a way out of poverty. Much like my mentor and boss Tammy did for me.
It's amazing working with these students. It's also extremely challenging. I get these students. I understand them. I get their struggles. I get them, because I was them. I still am. I'm fighting with everything that I am not to fall back into poverty like my parents. And education and the further of my education has only made it more of a possibility.
In my assignment for my class I mentioned that I was to teach online education in a high school level Language Arts virtual classroom. Or I want to work for the Department of Defense as a military base educator...
My dream? Become a director for a program like Upward Bound. There is something truly amazing about working in TRIO programs. And now that I've had a taste of this kind of potential career, I almost cannot get enough.
It's like me with Butter Pecan ice cream. I can never get just one scoop.
As requested by my classroom instructor, I have to talk about my knowledge of action research and traditional research. Being that I am completely unfamiliar with action research I'm excited to learn about it from this upcoming class. I am, however, extremely familiar with traditional research. Goodness am I thankful I'm done with my undergraduate. SO MANY RESEARCH PAPERS! I guess choosing English and Education as majors will do that to me. I can truly only blame myself.
(Oh, I guess I should mention I'm in EDU 671: Fundamentals of Educational Research. Yeah, that's a thing.)
On a side note, I still love to read and write. I got a puppy named Outcast. And I just started my summer endeavors through our Summer Commuter program at Upward Bound.
It seems like these blog posts will be a regular thing again. And I couldn't be more excited!
I look forward to writing again!
