ADD/ADHD

From the President’s Desk Robin Ennis As I write this, it is the first day of fall semester at my institution. To educators, the new school year is often more monumental than a new calendar year. It’s...

If you’re like me, and particularly if your professional life revolves around schooling in any form or capacity, you look forward to summertime each year. You do this with the undying hope it brings a break from at least some traditional duties, a more relaxed pace, and time to catch up on some professional and personal tasks you just didn’t have time for during the school year but promised to catch up on once summer arrived and things slowed down. And, if you’re like me, you probably cringed or even laughed out loud before you finished reading the previous sentence.

Felicia is a K -4 special education teacher entering her third year in the Metro Nashville public schools system in Nashville, Tennessee, working with students with Mild-moderate disabilities such as ADHD and dyslexia. As a collaborative teacher for major and at-risk students who cannot walk, feed or go to the bathroom by themselves, Felicia has supported youth with disabilities in New York, Nashville, and Rhode Island. She is a figure skating instructor and is a wicked math intervention teacher.

Angela Schooner is an early-career, high school special education teacher. She works with 14 to 21-year-old students at Pillar High School in Livingston, New Jersey. Read her inspiring story of how living with ADHD has both challenged and inspired her to achieve her dreams.