TEACH Impact Story: Victoria

“I would like to share my journey in the ECE field, and how the TEACH . Scholarship helped me achieve my degree. I was a stay-at-home mother when I was approached by a director friend. She asked if I would be willing to work as a substitute preschool teacher temporarily. That temporary position turned into a career for the last twenty- two years. I started my career that I love and it became a mission to take a center that was not accredited and teacher-directed, to a center that is now play-based and rated with four stars. This process began with many staff members taking trainings and classes together. Being a mother of two school-aged children and working full time, my educational process started slow and continued slowly. Life threw many crises in to the realm of things, but I kept plugging away. When money became short for the center the schooling process stopped.

Because of this scholarship I was able to achieve my first goal of obtaining my director’s certificate. A few years later I achieved a degree in the Early Childhood Education field. The T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship is a very important scholarship because I would’ve not been able to afford to go through this educational process without the financial support. The important piece of this scholarship is the accountability piece for all parties involved. This scholarship has helped me achieve educational goals and offered emotional growth where I now know I can achieve what I set for myself.”

– Victoria, TEACH Scholar