It is an amazing experience to be an educator. We get to live in the past, present, and future. So much of what we plan is based on a combination of what we know to be true and what we know needs to be true. We work in the present because school is an environment that needs constant attention and adjusting. However, what drives us is our determination to make a mark on the future, to help others gain the knowledge and skills to make meaning of their lives and to make meaningful decisions to live their lives for the better.

I work with a phenomenal group of people. Individually and together we strive to push past boundaries that cloud success, to uncover and explore the difficult issues that permeate throughout our globe, and to persist in making the positive more alive and more relevant each day. Visit our classrooms. Talk to our children. Learn from them how much we care and how important each of them is to each one of us.

Mr. Chianese has a member of the UNMS community since 2007.

He can be reached at a.chianese@unmslearns.net