>> I think for education just in general, if you're going to be working with children
or students, you have to have a passion.
And you have to love what you're doing.
And, because it's hard work that is at times maybe not the,
it might be considered a thankless kind of job at times
because you don't necessarily have those people thanking you for, you know,
getting you the education that they got.
And that's, that's one of the things that you're doing a service to society and to schools.
And I think you need to have that passion.
And you need to go in with a positive attitude every day.
Because you're just, well that's in general, I think,
in any occupation you need to love what you do.
But when you're working with kids or even adult students, you have to love what you do.
Because they'll pick that up.
If you're, if you're not a very passionate person about your job, they'll,
they'll just be disengaged typically.
So that kind of helps you as a teacher and as an educator in general.
And then as you become a school leader, you have to do a high quality job of teaching,
but then you also have to be able to take on other roles within the school,
and show through your example that you're a school leader.
So you might start out as a team leader.
So you're working with your grade level or department chair, or your department.
And, you know, you're the one that's organizing the meeting.
You're the one that's helping to move the team in a positive direction.
You know, those kinds of things.
And those are the kinds of things that start to get noticed.
And then, like I did, I think that helped me, which is you just take risks
and you just take those opportunities to do something a little bit, you know, different.
A little bit out of your box and your comfort zone.
And that will help position you in a spot that, you know,
you might end up loving that new position.
And that's kind of what happened to me.
I knew that I loved teaching.
And then, you know, when I put myself as an assistant principal, and principal, you know,
there's that little bit of apprehension.
There's a lot of responsibility that comes with that position.
But I loved it.
It was one of the best jobs, it was the best job I ever head, I mean, by far.
I loved being a principal.