<Tab/>As a student growing up I would like to think of myself as being ideal, but truthfully I was not. Having an exceptional mind, I was not an exceptional student. The traditional method of learning bored me. I had both strengths and weaknesses. One outweighed the other yet both stemmed from the same seed, my exceptional mind. <Tab/>My strengths or what my educators would perceive, …showed first 75 words of 477 total…

…showed last 75 words of 477 total…She allowed me create any kind of project that I wanted. Tri-board, research paper, video, she gave me the freedom and confidence to perform. <Tab/>She understood what most of the teachers that taught me didn't. She understood that I wasn't a bad child but, the standard criteria bored me and in order not to lose me she needed to find a way to make it appeal or broaden the spectrum.