Welcome to Harney Middle School.

I'm Krystal.

I'm Christina.

And we are going to interview this trustee today that actually represent our school.

To start off what made you get into teaching before deciding to become a therapist?

Well, maybe decide to go into teaching is.

First of all, I was kind of like a family of profession.

My older brother and his wife were both teachers, and then one of them became a principal.

So from a very early age, I was able to see what the education profession was like, and I got to visit my older brother's classroom.

I also had a lot of really good teachers when I was growing up, all the way from elementary school through high school, and they had a big influence on my life.

So that those are some of the reasons that I decided to go into teaching.

What made you run for the CCSD trustee?

Now, that is a really complex question.

I'll try to break it down.

First of all, after teaching here in the school district for 15 years, I taught over at UNLV for nine years, and part of the training that I did was with brand new teachers, like student teachers.

And I was really interested in giving back to the community, still being involved in education and also being able to get out and see what was happening in our schools.

And even as a therapist now, I get to see a lot of students that are from our school.

So it's just kind of like an all around thing where I wanted to stay involved.

What is your schedule like as a trustee?

My schedule is very crazy.

It's very busy.

Basically, when you look at our meeting schedule, we have one meeting that's called a work session and it's at the beginning of the month.

It's the first Wednesday of the month.

It's mostly trustee business having to do with policy or if we're changing things around that directly have to do with the trustee, the board of trustees, and there's seven of us.

So we have different types of items there.

Second and fourth Thursdays are what we call the big meetings or the regular board meetings.

And sometimes that schedule will get changed around like for holidays, like November and December, they'll get changed around.

But those are the meetings that are business meetings where we take care of most of our policy regulations, purchases.

And if we have things where we have to have presentations from the staff.

So, you know, turns into a lot of meetings and we also have briefings and the different items.

Why do you like to visit schools and students?

I like to visit schools and see the students because this is where this is, where all the action is.

This is where it is happening.

I always call it like going back in time to when I was a teacher.

I really missed being a teacher and I like going back and visiting the kids and the students that maybe sometimes have left Harney.

Maybe they've gone on to Las Vegas high school, and I like to see the transition.

Also, talk to your teachers.

Talk to the administrators.

Talk to the librarians.

Basically find out what's really happening.

Because when we're over in our building and our central buildings, we're not really seeing what's going on.

And also, I get to talk to students like you guys and find out what you like, what's happening at school, Maybe sometimes what you don't like, what's working and what's not working.

And it's a connection to basically what I do as a trustee because we're elected to represent a certain number of schools and Is there anything you could change in your job about being a trustee?

How much time do you have?

I'm just being a little bit kind of a kind of like a smart alec.

There's a lot of things I'd like to change about being a trustee, but one of the main things I'd like to change is that I'd like to have more connection to the community.

So in the past, we had some things that are not happening right now, but we're hoping to bring them back.

And some of those things are like maybe students coming to our meetings and learning about their achievements, their awards, educators recognizing educators and what's been happening in the schools performances.

I don't know if you guys have ever had the opportunity to watch a city council or a county commission meeting, but they have a lot of people that come in from the community and there's different awards and achievements.

So let's say that you guys got a specific award for something.

I'd love to have that happen where you guys come to our meeting, we recognize you, or maybe one of your teachers.

You know, has achieved something and we want to go ahead and recognize him or her.

So those are some of the things that I'd like to change about being a trustee.

But overall, it's having more connection with the people that I represent.

Well, thank you very much for coming to our interview.

We really appreciate you coming here at Harney Middle School.

Thank you so much.

It was a pleasure to be here.

It was a pleasure.

Thank you.