I'm Robin Mills and I teach DD developmentally delayed students with severe and profound
disabilities at Washington Irving Elementary.
I love what I do.
I growing up, I never imagined doing anything else so I have to assume that that was my
gift that God gave me.
My goal for my students is for them to reach their greatest potential and that's so rewarding
because to get to their greatest potential we have to get around some things like vision
loss, hearing loss, sometimes both.
All of my students are dealing with seizure activity so sometimes that can be a struggle.
When I'm sitting at the table and I am able to ask one of my students to read a sentence
and reading in its simplest form, maybe if it's just repetitive, it's really exciting
to watch that student overcome the struggle.
I love doing our performances every year.
Those give my kids and their parents and their families an opportunity to be part of something
that's just fun and wonderful and exciting and the focus is on that child.
What that child can do, how that child can just light up a stage, it's just so much
fun.
I don't feel like it's me being recognized, I feel like it's the process and when you
walk in my classroom and you see a smile and you see a celebration and you see the struggle
come to fruition, I think it's about that population and the students that I serve,
they really, I think, are worthy of being recognized as being wonderful.
Thank you, Aiden, good job, Valerie.
