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Hey, everybody. I'm Doug and that's Connor and

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this. Is the Bethel School district presents podcast.

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Today, we're talking about careers in education, a

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program at our high schools that is getting

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students ready to become teachers in the future.

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It's fantastic, and we'll check that interview out

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in just a little bit but Connor. I

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thought we would kick things off with a

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little trivia contest.

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We have each prepared 3 trivia questions that

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the other knows nothing about, and we're gonna

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share them right now on the air our

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audience can play along at home, and I

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don't know what the winner gets. You have

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any thoughts? No. But I do know that

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we're both actually pretty decent at trivia. I

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know that because we were on a pub

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trivia team once and we won. That is

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true. So we got no credit for it,

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but we did win. And no prize. That

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definitely went to somebody else. Someone else took

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credit and the enterprise, but we had the

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pride of knowing. It was a job well

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done. So it will be this is 2

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champions facing off.

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I'd came up with 3 good ones for

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you, so I don't know. I think I

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might stump you on at least 1 of

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them. I think you might, but I'm gonna

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come out swinging, and this is the trivia

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question. That I just came up with on

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my own. I didn't know the, but it

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was just a piece of trivia. I did

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not know, and it got me thinking that

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maybe we should try this out.

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What?

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Is missus claus

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first name.

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Missus claus. First name. I feel like this

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should be very easy, but nothing is coming

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to. To be clear, we're talking about Santa

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Claus wife. Boy.

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I'm Cindy Claus. I'm I'm gonna go Cindy

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claus. Cindy Claus. That's... Alright. Alright. That's wrong,

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but

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I actually had 2 names. I was going

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to accept. Now my source on this is

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snow dot com because there's a lot of

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speculation about Santa Claus wife's actual name. If

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you wanna go back to the earliest 1

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I found. It's 18 49 in a book

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Her name is Ge gertrude.

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And the latest 1 I was gonna take

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is from 19 70. Of course, there's been

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a ton of movie since then featuring Santa

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claus. And so there are many of those

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were his wife has a different name. But

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in 19 seventies Santa Claus is coming to

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town. You've seen it, the Clay nation classic.

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Her name is Jessica.

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disagree.

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I think it's Cindy. I'm giving myself a

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point.

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I would have also taken Mary or Carol

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as a as So basically, there is no

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answer, But good. We're well, let's move on.

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And I picked 3 questions, 2 of which

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are right up your alley.

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1 of them because you're a bit of

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a bird. Correct? That is very true. So

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this 1 has to do with birds. I'm

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gonna just hit you with it.

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What? Do you call a group of Flaming?

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That's a real good when I was hoping

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you're Crow, which everybody knows is a murder,

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a flock of Seagull was a haircut in

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the eighties Flaming.

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I'm gonna go with an order of flaming.

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That is a decent guess. I'm gonna give

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you a c minus for guessing.

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Obviously wrong.

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But I love this answer. It's a fl.

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A fl of Flaming, which is perfect. Right?

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It is perfect. It makes sense. Okay. My

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second trivia question for you our third trivia

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question overall if you're keeping score at home.

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Rosa parks

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was in which of these famous Tv shows.

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little house on the prairie.

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I'm going d, none of the above. This

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is a trick question to make me look

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like an idiot.

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Boy, it

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for some reason,

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I can picture her with Michael Land and

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so I'm going highway to Heaven.

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I've love that picture. It's wrong. She was

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on touch by an angel. Oh, that was

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my second choice. Her I d is very

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interesting with that as an outlier in there.

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Alright. My second 1 isn't even more up

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your alley. You are a devout swift.

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So if you don't get this 1, they

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are going to revoke your membership. Okay. This

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should be very easy. What was Taylor Swift

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very first song to chart on the billboard

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hot 100.

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Your I'm gonna just have to say Tim

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Mcgraw right off the bat.

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Correct Moon. I thought so. See. I thought

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maybe a trick question. Maybe there's something that

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chart, like, 98 or something like, No. That

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definitely her first. You get to keep your

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membership for 1 more year. That that titles

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you to membership for another year. Final question

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from me, something which came first and you

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were of age when these 3 things came

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about? Which 1 came out first,

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or Twitter.

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K. I know it was in Twitter, so

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we'll take that right off the bat. So

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now we're 50 50.

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Youtube or Facebook. I wanna say Facebook came

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out in 2004.

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I feel like it's probably close, but I'm

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gonna say Facebook came first. You are correct.

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Nicely done. We're gonna keep your Facebook account

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Facebook it, 2004,

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Wow. So I should get 3 points for

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that actually, because it... I would give you

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a bonus point knowing the actual year. That

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was seen the social network a few too

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many times. I love that movie.

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Okay, Doug. Last 1. This 1 as far

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as I know is not right up your

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alley, but you've That's okay. They don't all

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have to be.

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Which popular condiment was once sold as a

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medicinal cure. For diarrhea.

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There's no multiple choice? No. No. Oh, boy.

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Just think... I mean, multiple choices think of

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all the popular condiments out there and pick

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1 of them. So I'm only thinking mayonnaise

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mustard ketchup and

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think I'm gonna throw horse rat in because

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I feel like that might be the answer,

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but I'm gonna say mustard.

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Boy, you are close. It is ketchup.

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Really? It is indeed ketchup up. Isn't that

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odd. I feel like it is,

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you gotta trust the good people at

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Internet.

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They do seem to know a lot of

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things. I learn a lot of things from

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the Internet. And you got some medical advice

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very free medical advice

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if you need it. Thankfully here in our

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district, we are very happy that students aren't

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just learning things off the Internet. They have

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qualified

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amazing teachers that are helping them learn in

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class. And we also have a class called

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careers.

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In education. Yes. We do. And that is

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where our students are learning to become teachers

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themselves. And Doug, you sat down with 1

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of our amazing careers and education teachers.

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I'm sitting down with spelling league high school's

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careers and education teacher Jenna Wallace, and 1

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of our former students Tara Wong. Ladies, thanks

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for joining us. Thank you for having us.

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Excited to be here. Jenna, I'm gonna start

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with you. A lot of people say teaching

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is a calling. It's not just a job.

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You know, a 9 to 5 punch in

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punch out kinda job, what first got you

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interested in being a teacher. My mom was

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a classified employee in the Bethel school district

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for a long time. Like she worked in

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schools. She also was Asp secretary at 1

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of the middle schools,

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and then went over to work in payroll

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and worked... Through preschool,

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like a clerk. So school's always been a

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place I've been. I have 2 aunts who

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our teachers as well. So it's just kind

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of in my in my blood, I guess.

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Now you're a teacher, teaching, possibly future teachers.

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What's does that mean to you? It's exciting,

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just I have students like Tara, who's with

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me today that I get be around and

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see their excitement when they go into classrooms

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and see that light bulb go off with

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students and just see how they help create

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a healthy learning community in those classrooms just

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makes my heart blow up. Tara for you,

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what was it that that made you wanna

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start looking at teaching as a career. And

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what made me interested in teaching was wanting

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to be someone's miss Wallace,

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super boost street eco, but to and sharing

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many students

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that have a reliable adult at all times

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is much needed. That's amazing.

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How's does that make you feel?

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Makes you wanna cry when she says that?

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Because tears is a special student and she

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really just jumped in? Into this class last

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year as a junior,

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you take it as a junior or senior

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and she just jumped in and I... Threw

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Covid. I actually had her right when we

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went out in Covid,

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missed that last week together when we went

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out in March in that trimester, and then

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I got her back for Child Development 2,

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and we were in just a little side

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session. I did little mini conferences with students,

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and I told I was like, tara I

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have this class called curves and Ed for

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you'd be great. Like, your your assignments have

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been great through child development 2. The second

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class. Like, I really could see you working

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with people, and she just kinda Oh, yeah.

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Maybe maybe I would wanna be a teacher.

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Maybe, you know, when she she's, like, somebody

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else told me that too and I said

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I just see, like, how much you care

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and how much effort you put into it.

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And there she was. Junior year. So it's

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awesome. Careers Education is offered at all 3

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of our comprehensive high schools here at Span

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way Lake at Grand High school and Bethel

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High school.

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Jenna, can you give me an overview of

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the careers education class what are students learning?

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Sure. We look at 6 different pillars, so

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ranging from college app. Access. So especially for

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students like the month of October, Fa opens.

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We need to get, look at college application

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deadlines, so that's 1 of ours.

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We start off with healthy learning, how students

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need to feel safe and comfortable in their

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environments and how we set that up. We're

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also gonna look at equity and opportunity for

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students, synergies in inequities equities in education.

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Also, they do an internship, so they'll spend

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about 4 months, 3 to 4 days a

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week, with,

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elementary teacher, usually, some... If we get middle

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schools, that's great too, but it's a little

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bit hard with the scheduling, and they work

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with a mentor, and they have weekly activities

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that they're kinda of focusing on, like, they'll

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focus on how they communicate with parents and

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how teachers handle discipline, how they do use

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technology. So basically all these

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d justification of education things that we do

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to help them see if this is really

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something they wanna go into. I think that's

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really important because a lot of people have

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that's sage on the stage thought of teaching

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just someone standing in front of a room,

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just lecturing all day. That's not what education

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is at all. Terror for you before you

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took this class, what were your thoughts on

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teaching teaching. I mean, you've been a student

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your whole life? What what were your thoughts

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coming into the class? Well, I didn't know

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it to spec. 1 thing I learned and

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that was very I was the different types

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of waste students learn.

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Every student in all classrooms have a preference

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on how they personally understand the curriculum being

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taught. For example 1 thing we learned from

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as well was that there's visual learners, and

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then there's others that are physical learners, and

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then there's a whole bunch more audio learners,

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you know. And it was... Eye opening for

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sure because then it also let me know

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that I wasn't, like, I didn't feel so

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bad about myself when learning the stuff, just

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knowing that there's just different ways it could

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be taught. You know, every anybody he can

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learn in all of those ways. You might

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have a preferred style, But just... So a

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teacher just doesn't give direct and instruct, and

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a teacher has activities. They do dialogues. They

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do engagement activities where maybe you discuss where

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you write it, Maybe you discuss out loud.

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So maybe you go outside and you look

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at nature, you know, you can do math

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in different ways. So just finding ways to

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have a variety in your teaching. So... And

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that's 1 thing that our districts pushing for

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is universal deadline for learning is having multiple

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ways for kids to show

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their learning of a standard So Tariff for

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you is an eye opening experiences class.

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Jennifer you, what's something you teach that would

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surprise most people? We talk a lot about

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in inequities equities and education and looking at

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the students actually pick a topic, and they

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have to do a presentation on something they

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feel an educational issue. And so

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we brainstorm issues. They... Looked at, maybe, like,

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the start time for school, they looked at,

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you know, why are certain people suspended more

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often,

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also looking at privilege and how that's impacted

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education and how we look at the brain

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and how important it is that we target,

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you know, hit different places and make people

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feel comfortable. So it's kinda fun when they

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get to... And see what an equities are

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out there and giving them access to do

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a presentation and convince us

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about those things, so that's fun for me.

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See that maybe people don't know that we're

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doing that, giving them the opportunity to see,

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like, what's maybe wrong with education and how

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can we help it. So we can get

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more teachers in, and we get more students

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meeting standard and get more students graduating and

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joining the workforce, and that's a big thing

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I think people don't understand about the course.

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You for sure and about teaching too. I

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mean, it's an ever evolving. You know, we

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didn't figure teaching out a hundred years ago,

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and it's been mastered. It evolves with the

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times and and the things in the ways

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that we need to teach people. A lot

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of our Ct classes have a hands on

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component to them Careers education has that internship,

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terra for you, how does this class compare

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to other classes that you took care its

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Emily lake. This class definitely was the class

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that would be the highlight of your day.

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Even on days when you didn't feel your

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best, knowing that young kids were watching. The

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clock like a hawk waiting for you to

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walk through that door was like the biggest

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daily welcome, and it would change her mid

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instantly, of course. Reaching the biggest motivation to

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intern was definitely the students? Like, by far

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the students? Where did you do your internship

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And what grade were you teaching? I was

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at Chemistry Perry Elementary and I was intern

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for Kindergarten. Oh, my gosh. That's that's had

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to be the highlight of I'm sure it

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was a highlight of their day. It had

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to be a highlight for you too. That's

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so fun. Jennifer, do you have any students

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that have gone on to become teachers? This

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start of our fifth year of the course.

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All students actually, at the end of the

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year. Take the para pro exam, which will

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give them

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opportunity to come back to the district and

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work as an assistant maybe through college or,

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you know, possibly,

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give them a leg up, I guess, getting

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an interview on the district. So I have

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some students, 1 who's a pair right now

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at Cedar Cross Middle school, and some others

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that are dillon college, some that decided education

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wasn't for them, and they said I'm out

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of here. I... A lot of times compete

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with people who are in the medical field,

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so they wanna do service type related jobs.

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So it really depends we'll see where it

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goes. This year, the enrollment has almost doubled

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for my classes.

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Lake. So that just gives more opportunity,

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and we had doctor. Lan come in and

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talk to our students and told them all

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he wants them to come back and work

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in Bethel, hopefully. Ban as teachers. So that's

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my goal is to get more back into

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this profession and kinda grow our own. I

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love that we have classes like this here

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in the Bethel School district. When I was

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in school, it was mass science in English

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Just what you needed to graduate. I didn't

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really have a chance to explore different careers.

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And well, I worked at Wendy's after school.

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I guess that's a career exploration of of

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some sort. But I love that we have

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these options journeys. Like you said, for kids

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to find out what they wanna do or

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what they don't wanna do both are equally

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important in our career and technical education classroom

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messes are a great example of how we're

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doing that here. General wallace, T Wong. Thank

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you both so much for joining us today

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to talk about Careers years in education. Thank

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you. Thank you. It was fun.

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Wow, great interview, doug, Love hearing from our

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students as well, and that's do it for

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us this week. We will be back same

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time next week. See you then.

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Gonna