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Struggling student to Advocate

My name is Megan Sitcer Culbertson and this is my story. I struggled in school. I repeated a grade. I was labeled lazy and hard to manage. It took me years to see that I was worthy of good grades; I thought they were reserved for other, harder working students. I’m probably dyslexic.

I passed high school and went to college to the amazement of my 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Anderson. I became an elementary school teacher & unwittingly began to advocate for my students. I knew how they felt... to be quietly slipping, falling through those crack in our educational system. I could spot them from across the room and vowed to help them in any way possible. I researched different learning styles and the multiple intelligences and in turn, altered my teaching style. I worked tirelessly to differentiate my lesson plans to fit all the students’ needs in my class. I earned my Masters in the Art of Teaching and became a proponent of Cooperative Learning.

Then I became a mother of two little miracles and I thought my teaching days were over. I became busy caring for Cameron and Catherine, planning play dates, joining mothering groups and making mom-friends. I really thought my days in the educational field were over. I began a custom baking business with a good friend and was happily making cakes and cookies, and learning how to market a new business when my son was diagnosed with Dyslexia.

Actually, it wasn’t as easy as that sounds. I saw my child struggling and felt helpless. I was told that he wasn’t low enough when I mentioned asking for help from the school. I got him speech intervention to maybe explain away why his reading had stalled. Still his reading did not improve and his anxiety grew.

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