Meet Sheron, the Math Department Head at Equality Middle School

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I am the department head of Math at the middle school. I've been with equality for six years prior to this year being at the middle school, I was at the high school. I became a teacher following the footstep of my dad, my dad passed away this year and this is one thing that I'm most proud of, that I was able to carry on his legacy of education, this is something that he's instilled in all of us. Did I always wanted to be a teacher? No, I actually had a bachelor's in accounting and I did accounting for three years and then I realized that was something I didn't want to do. I had a passion for a number, but I didn't see myself just sitting in front of computer crunching numbers all day. So being that my dad was a teacher after we moved here, he went back to school, I would help him with lesson plan and grading and I kind of was like, oh this is something I want to do, but I also wanted to take my passion of numbers into this. So I ended up going to Lehman and I studied um uh masters in Math education where I was able to put my passion of number and then the idea of being a teacher together and I taught math, one thing I love about my students, I can tell you so many different things, but the one thing that stood out for me in terms of my students is the relationship with my students. I have students that I still communicate with from 2012, they still check in with me, they're graduated from college, but it's the relationship that I built with these students, they're able to speak with me, they know that it's a safe zone. They can come speak with me, have that person that they can just rely on. What do you love about your subject area? Um like I said, I've always had a passion about numbers, the numbers that relied something like digging into the numbers that I'm very passionate about and can use that um dr instruction or changes within um any goal that we have, looking at these data, that's how we can implement change.