Emily Albee (‘ 06, ’09G, ’12G) claims her senior high school pupils are commonly shocked to discover that she had not been totally planned for university when she began participating in the College of Maine.
The Hampden Academy social researches educator is a self-described army brat that stayed in Colorado, Hawaii as well as Maryland maturing. However both her moms and dads were from Maine as well as they determined to relocate residence around the moment Albee finished from senior high school.
” I had not been certain what I was mosting likely to do, however my moms and dads generally endangered me if I really did not most likely to university, as well as I am happy they did since I invested one decade at UMaine,” Albee remembers with a laugh. “I had some relatives that had actually gone there, as well as it appeared like an excellent fit when I went to. However I truly had no suggestion what I was doing in the beginning. I found out just how to discover at UMaine.”
Albee was a primary education and learning as well as background dual significant. She signed up with Delta Zeta sorority, where she participated in management as well as social work possibilities. As a student in 2003, she aided arrange an on-campus talk by Francis Bok, a Dinka tribesman as well as previous servant from South Sudan. Albee claims the experience was transformative for her.
” I recognized I want social justice,” she claims. “Afterwards, a team people overcame the Workplace of Pupil Life to begin a Civils rights Recognition Week.”
UMaine is likewise where Albee found a love of traveling, which has actually brought her to locations around the world, consisting of New Zealand, Cuba, China, Peru, Guatemala, Ireland as well as a number of nations in Europe.
When she completed her pupil mentor as well as finished with a bachelor’s level in December 2006, Albee remained at UMaine as well as rolled right into a graduate program. She obtained a work as a research study aide operating in the Workplace of Research Study as well as Sponsored Programs as well as Industrial Participation. She was appointed to a give taken care of by teacher of electric as well as computer system design Bruce Segee.
” The task intended to bring supercomputing modern technology for vibrant Planet modeling right into intermediate school class,” she claims. “I aided establish an educational program for 7 th as well as 8 th , provided research study searchings for at nationwide seminars, as well as aided send gives to different state as well as government enrollers.”
In May 2009, she made her Master of Education and learning with focus in middle-level social researches. By now, she was searching for a full time mentor task, however there were essentially none to be located because of the after effects from the 2008 economic situation. Albee wound up taking a 25 percent placement as 7 th quality social researches educator at Reeds Creek Intermediate School in Hampden. She remained to deal with the NSF give with Segee as well as took a work as an education and learning outreach aide at UMaine’s Foster Facility for Pupil Advancement.
Not completed with university, she signed up in 2 even more graduate programs: A Certification of Advanced Research (C.A.S.) at the University of Education And Learning as well as Person Growth as well as a technology design grad certification via the Foster Facility.
” I was functioning as well as mosting likely to courses at UMaine in the early mornings, after that instructing in the mid-days,” she claims. “I did that for a year, and after that obtained an extra half mentor placement as well as at some point functioned my method right into a full time task.”
Albee divided time in between Reeds Creek as well as surrounding Hampden Academy for a year as well as began functioning simply at the senior high school in 2011. She got a full time mentor placement there in 2015.
All these experiences aided cultivate Albee’s rate of interest as well as energetic participation in regional as well as state education and learning organizations.
” The advantage of mosting likely to UMaine is that you have accessibility to all these extraordinary individuals,” Albee claims. “Individuals like Jake Ward, Mike Hastings, as well as Bruce Segee. Phyllis Brazee, Barb Blazej, Ed Brazee as well as O.J. Logue in the University of Education And Learning as well as Person Growth, Renee Kelly at the Foster Facility, Nathan Godfried, Elizabeth McKillen as well as Stephen Miller in the Background division. These are all dear advisors as well as close friends.”
In Might, Albee was called the 2022 Penobscot Area Educator of the Year. She likewise was a finalist for 2023 Maine Educator of the Year, which inevitably mosted likely to Matt Bernstein, a secondary school educator in Rose city. However she claims the experience has actually permitted her to review her mentor as well as offered her a possibility to obtain even more associated with education and learning plan concerns that rate of interest her.
” It’s a year of solution from when you are called area educator of the year, as well as it has actually absolutely loaded my mug appearing of a couple of years of mentor throughout the pandemic,” she claims. “I agree to yell from the roof to clarify the value of education and learning in Maine, as well as supporter for plans that I count on like cost-free institution morning meal as well as lunch, as well as ensuring the state remains to fulfill its responsibility to pay 55 percent of the expense of K– 12 colleges.”
Inevitably, Albee claims the method she intends to maintain adding is by having discussions.
” All of us desire our children to have effective scholastic as well as social-emotional knowing experiences,” she claims. “If there’s one point I found out at UMaine, it’s that talking with individuals regarding these concerns– at the regional, state as well as nationwide degree– as well as utilizing your individual as well as specialist network to fix troubles can make a significant distinction.”
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