I am an AACPS:<\/strong> Alum, Northeast High School<\/em> | Employee<\/p>\n As a student in AACPS, I looked at my teachers with a different eye than other students.\u00a0 For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a teacher.\u00a0 Because of my strong desire to teach, I was the first in my family to attend college.\u00a0 I am almost certain that had I not had the desire to teach, I would not have gone to college.\u00a0 Upon graduation from Frostburg State University, I only applied to teach in one county.\u00a0 I was determined to come home to teach and didn’t want to work in any other district.\u00a0 My experience in AACPS was a good one and I wanted to share that with other students.\u00a0 My teachers over the years were encouraging and challenging.\u00a0 My goal was to be the same for my students.<\/p>\n After 10 years of teaching, I began my work in AVID, an academic program designed to help students in the “academic middle” develop consistent study and organizational habits that will carry them through life. AVID fosters a culture where students are always looking forward with the support they need to reach their future college and\/or career goals. \u00a0I am passionate about AVID because I needed AVID.\u00a0 As a first generation college student I did not know how to apply for college or scholarships.\u00a0 I wasn’t confident that I had the skills to hit the ground running once I started at a four year school.\u00a0 Student acceptance and preparation for college drives my passion for my work.\u00a0 I want to help all graduates have skills and confidence to begin their college educations or careers.\u00a0 I also want to encourage all of our future teachers to come back to AACPS to teach.\u00a0 Returning to my own school system is one of the best decisions I have made.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Upon graduation from Frostburg State University, I only applied to teach in one county. I was determined to come home to teach and didn’t want to work in any other district. My experience in AACPS was a good one and I wanted to share that with other students.”–Dot Arida, AACPS Coordinator of Academic Support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":10489,"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":[144,130,132,172],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-10488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northeast_stories","category-aacps_story","category-employee_stories","category-student_stories","tag-avid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488","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=10488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10490,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10488\/revisions\/10490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}