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How are you feeling today?

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I'm really happy to be at Gotham
because I'd love to come over

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here.

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A lot of you are students that
I've known for years and years.

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What was your favorite thing to
do before you were a principal?

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Um, I really liked to work with
kids.

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Even before I became a
principal.

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I was a social worker in Detroit
and I worked in schools with

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kids. Miss.

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What made you to become a
printer?

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Um, I was a teacher at our
school.

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I've always worked at our
school. I started. 2004, um,

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and I love teaching and I love
being in the classroom with

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students, but after I taught for
about 10 years,

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I realized that I wanted to move
into a role that would let me

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help decide what we were
teaching in each classroom.

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And find a way to get to know
all of the students in the school

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and all of the teachers. What
jobs can the school help us get?

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I think one of the things that
we like to do first is talk to

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you all about what you really
like to do, so that's kind of,

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that's called vocational
exploration.

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So I'm gonna ask you a question
back, you know,

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what is something you'd really
like to do?

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Well, I like to draw more. OK,

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so what we would probably try to
do is Look at the fact that you

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like to draw and make stuff out
of clay and paint. OK,

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so what we would do is look at
the fact that you like the arts,

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and we would try to encourage
you to explore the arts and then

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try to find a job,

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maybe at a pottery studio or at
a store that sells art supplies.

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So we always want you to do
something that you're interested in.

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Professor.

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I love a lot of programs at
Gotham.

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I love our teacher's aid program
because our students go on to

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work in other District 75
schools.

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Um, our podcasting program here.

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I also love that here at Gotham,

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you have a lot of town halls and
programs where you all engage

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with each other and talk, and we
have seminar at the main site,

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and we also have really good
arts programs. Good morning.

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How are you? How are you? I'm
great. How are you doing?

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I'm good. Good.

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Are there any special, are there
any special events planned?

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Yeah, we have a couple coming up
in February.

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We are going to have our
Valentine's Day dance at Ellery,

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which is always really fun. It's
a nighttime dance.

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There'll be food, dancing.

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There's space for your parents
to come if your parents want to

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bring you, um, and then we start
to film our movie. We're back.

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You are back. It's nice to see
you again, Lisa.

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Who?

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Do you want to do for our school
next year?

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What I would really love to do
is find more options for you all

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to go out and work in the
community and make connections in the

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community.

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I'd love to find different ways
to let you get out of the

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building a little more and
practice.

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So what I'd really like to do is
find ways for you all to not

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have to sit in a classroom all
day long and get out into the

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community and learn a little
more about becoming.

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Community members and um
becoming a little more independent when

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you get out and about.