​WHY DO I TEACH?

Every child deserves a teacher who believes in the intrinsic value of all persons and who can help them find their place as a contributing member of a kind and supportive community.  I've worked at many schools and for leaders with a wide range of priorities.  Every family and every teacher deserves a school leader with the courage and conviction to not give up when the going gets rough.  Our children, and our nation, depend on our commitment to each other no matter our differences,  

Link Schrader (August 2022)

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I hold K-12 teaching licenses in California, Missouri, and Kansas.  In Kansas I hold a Building Leadership license and, in California, a Certificate of Eligibility for school administrative positions.  My teaching experience has primarily been supporting learners receiving Special Education services in general education classrooms, and supporting students with emotional and behavioral challenges in both inclusive and alternative settings, such as community and juvenile court schools.  At present, I'm in between teaching assignments.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the  arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."  Theodore Roosevelt