{"id":16483,"date":"2019-09-17T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=16483"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T17:50:35","slug":"bri_barone2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2019\/09\/17\/bri_barone2\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming My Fear of Math with Mr. Fornaro’s Encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"

A story of appreciation for Mr. Michael Fornaro, Glen Burnie High School<\/em>, from:<\/h2><\/div>

Briana Barone\u00a0an AACPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Alum, Glen Burnie High School, Class of 2017\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Mr. Fornaro at Glen Burnie High School was one of the educators who taught me to believe in myself, to never turn away from a challenge. I had Mr. Fornaro for Honors Pre-Calculus my senior year. I was a terrified, shy, and embarrassed math student. I have consistently had bad experience with math. Going into his class, I was close-minded and counting the days to leave… or at least I was initially. Mr. Fornaro went above and beyond to help me understand the concepts he taught, at one point staying until 5PM because I needed help and my ride home had not yet arrived. Going through the Biomedical Allied Health Program brought a lot of challenges for me, especially with mathematics. Mr. Fornaro told me to never give up, give it your best shot, and don\u2019t be afraid to make mistakes.<\/p>\n

I am proud to say I am excelling in 200 level math courses at university because of him. I really and truly think he does not get the recognition deserves – I rarely got the opportunity to tell him back then, but I want him to know even early in his career he made a huge impact in my life and I will be forever appreciative of his drive to help his students succeed.<\/p>\n

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“Mr. Fornaro at Glen Burnie High School was one of the educators who taught me to believe in myself, to never turn away from a challenge.”–Bri Barone, Glen Burnie High School Alum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":16570,"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":[255,141,130,131,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glenburniehs","category-glen_burnie_stories","category-aacps_story","category-alumni_stories","category-teacher_stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483","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=16483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16571,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16483\/revisions\/16571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}