Cassandra gives us a window into her world as an intervention specialist in a school specializing in educating students with autism. She shares how she enthusiastically takes on the challenge of getting to know the students and while using her intuition and musical talent to help that effort. And later, she invites us to experience her latest obsession, water color painting.
Cassandra Hoagland has been a special education teacher for over 25 years. She started her career teaching gang kids in Sacramento, and for most of her career, has taught the more severe and profound students. She has been lucky to work with some outstanding teachers and outstanding paraprofessionals or classroom teaching aids.
She is passionate and expressive and "not really able to hold in my emotions or my facial expressions" which has quite possibly made her a better teacher. She is the proud mother of Shannon who is 25, Robbie he was 20 and in his second year of college, and Thomas he was 18 in a high school senior.
She discovered a passion for painting less than a year ago, which almost equals her passion for singing, and she always tries to be positive and good because it is far easier than being nasty.
If you would like to see some of Cassandra's paintings, visit the Hear It Share It Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HearItShareIt/. If you are interested in requesting one be made custom for you, feel free to reach out to Cassandra at csh920@gmail.com.
If you would like to know more about the adventures of being a parent raising a child with a disability, Cassandra recommends Robert Hudson's Blog Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords, available at https://belovedmonsterandme.blogspot.com/
Music used in this episode supplied by filmmusic.io under standard license (https://filmmusic.io/standard-license)
Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet
Roll The Intro by Alexander Nakarada - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4793-roll-the-intro
Loopster by Kevin MacLeod - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4991-loopster
Total Happy Up And Sunny by Sascha Ende® - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/555-total-happy-up-and-sunny
Summer by Liron - Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6907-summer
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