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Un Viaje de Oportunidades (A Journey of Opportunities)

Written By Cassandra Castillo

Editors Note: The following story was written in Spanish and translated to English. The two articles are listed side by side below.

Margarita Vicente arrived from Guatemala to a new world where she did not speak the language in a sea of over 1,000 students. With the help of various teachers at Howard High School she has achieved the skills of reading, writing, and speech in the span of three years.

Margarita Vicente llegó de Guatemala a un nuevo mundo donde no hablaba el idioma en un océano de 1,000 estudiantes. Con la ayuda de varios maestros en Howard High School, ella ha logrado leer, escribir, y hablar inglés durante sus tres años aquí. 
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A Special Education

Written by Bethany Cothran

Hannah Wilson began teaching at Soddy Daisy High School in August 2023. As the only autistic teacher with a service dog she has ever seen, Wilson works to provide a safe space where all students, no matter who they are, can find a sense of belonging.

The smells of cafeteria food and teenage angst would be overwhelming to many, but to Soddy Daisy High School’s autistic ninth grade English teacher Hannah Wilson, the locker-lined hallways are more like home.

“[School] provided a really good structure for me and people with autism often need a lot of structure to keep them going or they get kind of off the rails,” Wilson said. “So I really like that structure and then I kind of fell in love with English.”

After a day of teaching, Wilson recognized that she has come a long way since she was first diagnosed with autism in seventh grade. 

“Finally getting that diagnosis was like an eye opening experience for me because like…other people experience the things that I’m experiencing,” Wilson said. “I’m not losing my mind, and I just need a little bit extra support in some places and some places are just not my area.”

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