Application Essay: My Career As An Assistant Principal

If I have learned nothing else as an adult, I have learned that life is unpredictable. It is of the upmost importance to me that I embrace the present and constantly strive to reach my goals, whether in my own education, my profession or personal.

I have always known that I would be in the education field. Both my mom and aunt are retired teachers. I spent countless hours in their classrooms growing up, seeing first hand the passion and hard work that goes into teaching. Unlike my role models, I chose a different path as an undergraduate student. I chose to begin my educational career in the science field, which enabled me to work for a pharmaceutical laboratory. However this left me wanting more, knowing that my true passion was being in a classroom. After to moving to Florida for my husband to pursue his PhD, I too went back to school for my alternate certification and fell more in love with teaching than I thought was possible. While beginning my teaching career in Florida, I quickly learned that not only did I love being in the classroom but I began taking on various leadership roles within the school and found myself wanting to pursue a path towards becoming an Assistant Principal. I worked closely with my school’s administration, went to all the professional development I could to help me

In the late Summer of 2016, my husband was battling PTSD and went to New York for a week to spend some time with family. He decided not to return to our home or marriage in Florida. My excitement for my future was gone. I had no idea what to do, but I picked myself up, sold our home and moved back to North Carolina in November. I was lucky enough to find a teaching job right away and a home to make my own. The last six months of 2016 were a blur and my life went from being planned out and on a track to becoming an Assistant Principal to having no idea what I was going to do or how I was going to do it all by