This 4th year educator is in high school teaching science. Meet Jessica Young from Georgia who teaches forensic science to seniors and environmental science to 9th graders. This professional balances being a wife and mom to include a life of teaching in the classroom. She takes all of her roles seriously and looks for methods to make the real world meet the academics. She has the scope of learners and that requires her switching gears a bit during the day. We talk about what exactly she teaches and how her courses can launch career choices for the seniors she is teaching. She feels satisfaction when something introduced to them begins to open doors for opportunity. TV shows create a CSI affect Jessica explains and that has impact on how someone looks at crime and therefor can create how they may function on a jury in a courtroom one day. That could affect us all.Educators are able to create excitement and Jessica realizes that her students who are picking electives are choosing to be in her class and she meets their expectations to learn beyond the book. She’s learning as she goes and looks to her veteran teachers to help her solve some of the obstacles in the classroom.We talk about her last year during covid in teaching an anatomy class and she was able to implement something she learned at a conference about introducing technology in the classroom. Off she went to work a 3-d printer into her classroom—which she found that her school actually already had and were waiting for someone too take hold and learn it. Jessica stepped up. e-Nable the Future is what lit her fire — The e-NABLE Community is an amazing group of individuals from all over the world who are using their 3D printers to create free 3D printed hands and arms for those in need of an upper limb assistive device. According to their website, “The e-NABLE Community is made up of teachers, students, engineers, scientists, medical professionals, tinkerers, designers, parents, children, scout troops, artists, philanthropists, dreamers, coders, makers and every day people who just want to make a difference and help to “Give The World A Helping Hand.”Jessica started the process and she walks us through it on this episode. Two of her students stepped up to get involved and see the project through. You’ll hear about the delivery of the hand to the child selected. Her students were a part of the project from the beginning and delivered the final product to a local child. We talk about the future, the cost and what all is required. They have continued to be able to be of service and are getting the community involved. She also got the chance to get a group of students in the Extended Learning in Crisp County to join in learning for future projects.Coffee, prayers and having a great support system at home and having mentors all make up how she can handle all that is on her plate. Jessica's compassion comes partly from how she’s growing herself and it spills over to her students. The methods it takes to get material into the minds of her students she has changed up some of how she handles how she hands out work—a lot of students are working after school sometimes to put food on the table at home. Jessica is a super influence and when we talk about how to protect her own heart, she says that’s a tough one. She’s seen some of the greatest things and sometimes the worst. Tune in!Music "STOMP" used by artist permission Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
