I am Lisa Epps, a Washington, DC
native and a University of Maryland alum. I earned a BA in African American
Studies 2003. After graduation I went to work for the New Jersey Board of
Education as a CAPA Consultant assessing failing schools in the southern and
northern districts. Some of my hobbies are reading and play writing. I am
thrilled and a little nervous about returning to school to obtain my graduate
degree, but I know that it will serve as a very viable tool in future
endeavors. Currently I am not teaching in the past I taught history. Because
I am not teaching, I am working on my graduate degree and planning to open a
preschool by late summer. The future plans of the school is to start with
infant to three years olds and add pre-K after the first year and first grade
the second year, second and third grade in the next three years. This course
I hope will provide me a source of information for my students and staff and
the overall program will provide me with the structure to continue my goals
in opening up high standard schools in seven states. These schools will be
for our future generation of students that includes technology. The skills
necessary for the future includes a strong background of technology and many
urban community schools lack these resources. Most of these children don’t
have computers in their homes as a result they depend on the school systems
to provide them with this resource. Today’s urban schools have failed it’s
community and my goals include making sure that technology it taught a very
young age. The things I feel passionate about are children, those that have
slipped through the cracks of society. I spend a great deal of my time
volunteering in my community. As long as I can help a child feel successful
at school, home or at play with their peers helps me to feel hopeful for our
future. The thing that I feel most proud of in my life is my volunteer work,
I am excited about the call to volunteer that our new president has
encouraged us too. If everyone would take a little time to help someone else
our problems would seem small and our world would come together for the
common good of all people. Most of my pastime these days has been researching
grants in order to create ways to successfully open up schools in communities
where the public schools have failed. None of this can become another
financial burden on the already financially stressed community. Reading is one
of my leisure pastimes.
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