{"id":13458,"date":"2018-06-08T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:04:07","slug":"josalyn_brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2018\/06\/08\/josalyn_brown\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Perfect Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Josalyn Brown<\/h2>\n<p><strong>I am an AACPS:<\/strong> 3rd Grade Teacher, <em>Crofton Woods Elementary School |<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>2017 Teacher of the Year Nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13460 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Josalyn-Brown_2-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Arlotto, Jasalyn Brown, &amp; Bonnie Johansen\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Josalyn-Brown_2-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Josalyn-Brown_2-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Josalyn-Brown_2.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>A wise person once said, \u201cThe only way to do great work is to love what you do.\u201d I love teaching. I love the promise that each new school year brings. I love the smell of a fresh box of crayons. I love seeing the smile on a child\u2019s face when they feel good about themselves. I love making a difference.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to be a teacher in my late twenties. I was working for a large company in Nashville as a sales representative. I enjoyed the perks of being a sales rep\u2014a flexible schedule, a company car, and an expense account\u2014but something was missing. I loved being with the team, coaching, mentoring and most of all, building relationships with the girls. Something inside of me came alive, and after a lot of soul searching, I decided to go back to school to enroll in an accelerated Master\u2019s program. I moved home to Maryland to begin my life as an educator, and what a difference it has made.<\/p>\n<p>In all of my years as a teacher my one goal has been to make my students feel accepted and willing to take risks. My classroom is a place of acceptance, and everyone is part of the team. I want students to know that I believe in them, and that I intend to be their biggest cheerleader. I feel that when they know I\u2019m invested in their lives then they are willing to work hard, not only for me, but for themselves. I strive for each student to have a \u201ccan do attitude.\u201d We celebrate the big victories, but the little ones, too. If my students leave me in June saying I learned a lot this year, But I also feel good about the person I am, then I have done my job&#8230;and what a perfect job it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I love the promise that each new school year brings. I love the smell of a fresh box of crayons. I love seeing the smile on a child\u2019s face when they feel good about themselves.&#8221;&#8211;Josalyn Brown, Crofton Woods Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":13460,"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":[130,132,147,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aacps_story","category-employee_stories","category-south_river_stories","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","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=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}