🍎 Together Again: How a Former Student With Disabilities Became Her Teacher’s Colleague
Aisha Farooq, Janelle Ali’s pre-K classroom helper at Dogwood Elementary School, works with students on a project involving construction paper. The students calmly rip, cut, and glue their paper together to create a picture with the torn pieces.
This isn’t Aisha’s first time working with Janelle. Janelle was also Aisha’s special education preschool teacher in 2005 at Clearview Elementary School. Fast-forward nearly two decades and the duo now collaborate daily as colleagues. Read more about Aisha’s experience from the Secondary Transition to Employment Program (STEP) to full-time employee on the Employee Blog.