I am an AACPS:<\/strong> Employee | Alum, South River High School, Center of Applied Technology 1982<\/em><\/p>\n Throughout my journey at AACPS I have been blessed to have amazing teachers and mentors.\u00a0 As a student I have great memories of teachers at Davidsonville Elementary, Annapolis Junior High, Central Middle, South River High School, and the Center of Applied Technology South.\u00a0 At each level I can think of examples of how teachers molded me.\u00a0 I am thankful for all that they taught me about academics and myself.\u00a0 There is however, one teacher that stands out. This very special teacher inspired me to pursue teaching as a career.<\/p>\n As a freshman at South River High School I decided to explore the programs that the Center of Applied Technology South had to offer. After trying several classes in the exploratory program I knew that cosmetology was the one for me.\u00a0 This is where I met Mr. Louis Glorioso.\u00a0 He was an amazing teacher that continues to drive me!\u00a0 As a student in Cosmetology class I thought that I was destined to be a stylist, but Mr. Glorioso saw something else in me.\u00a0\u00a0Through his guidance and the opportunities that he gave me in the classroom I discovered that I could combine my passion for cosmetology and teaching.\u00a0 And so my journey began. After graduating from high school with my cosmetology license I continued my education to fulfill my dream of becoming a teacher.\u00a0 I was teaching at a private cosmetology academy when I received a call from Mr. Glorioso.\u00a0 He was very excited to tell me that AACPS had an opening for a cosmetology teacher at the Center of Applied Technology North.\u00a0 He went on to say that he had contacted the school principal and human resources to tell them about me.\u00a0 It is because of Mr. Glorioso that I was hired for that position. When I expressed my gratitude to him he simply said, \u201cNow you go and give to someone else.\u201d\u00a0 Throughout my thirty one year career, as a teacher, internship facilitator, and now manager of internship and business programs, I have strived to do just that in honor of Mr. Glorioso. I will be forever grateful to Mr. Glorioso for all that he did for me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It is because of Mr. Glorioso that I was hired for [the cosmetology teacher at the Center of Applied Technology North]. When I expressed my gratitude to him he simply said, ‘Now you go and give to someone else.'”–Tammy Diedrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":10419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,130,131,132,147,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-south-specialty","category-aacps_story","category-alumni_stories","category-employee_stories","category-south_river_stories","category-teacher_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16431,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/16431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}