About+Ms.+Hamrick

I have been a "teacher" as far back as I can remember, however, I always fought against this natural gifting. I have several teachers in my family, including my mother. I had always assumed I was very different from these women, and that Christmas sweaters and coloring in the lines were not for me. As I graduated from college I was writing for a magazine, doing what I had long dreamed of doing and loved. Yet, in this profession that I had chosen I was not fulfilled. I realized I wasn't doing something that could create lasting change in the lives of others. That is what I had always wanted, and felt called, to do. I thought I could change the world with my words, but //what if I helped others to use their own words?// What if I became a teacher and could empower others daily? As idealistic as this sounds, I believe in this notion of education and teaching. I believe teaching is the most powerful profession there is. //To teach is to touch a life forever.//

It wasn't six months after graduating from college and getting my first job that I decided to make a career change. I enrolled in the UAB School of Education the Fall of 2009. I began UAB's Alternative Master's program in Secondary Education, English-Language Arts. I am now completing my masters degree in December 2011. I feel very lucky to be doing what I love at **Homewood Middle School**.