More than 3,500 volunteers will participate in Junior Achievement classrooms this year and count among them the president and CEO of JA, Robin Wise. Robin is teaching the high school program – “JA Success Skills.” Here’s what she has to say about her experience.
“I just got back from teaching my fourth session of JA Success Skills to a class of juniors at South High School. I LOVE it, and absolutely have a blast with the students each week. I have to admit that having never taught this particular JA program before I was a bit nervous. In fact, I told the students how I was feeling during my first visit — they laughed. Come to think of it they laugh at a lot of stuff I say, but that’s part of what makes this experience so much fun! “My kids”, as I have sometimes refer to them, have come to the United States from 14 countries like Ethiopia, Congo, Eritrea (which I learned is a country that is bordered by Sudan and Ethiopia), Russia, Mexico, Vietnam and Algeria to name a few. No matter what their background, the language of possibility is the same, and that’s why together we experience so many possibilities.”