{"id":2070,"date":"2021-05-11T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T19:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:49:04","slug":"new-teacher-profile-veronica-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/2021\/05\/11\/new-teacher-profile-veronica-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"New Teacher Profile: Veronica Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Leigh Welther”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

T.C.’s Orchestra’s New Teacher, Ms. Jackson, Is ready for her \u201cDream Job\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jackson came to T.C. from Hammond Middle School where she taught orchestra for eight years. Before teaching at Hammond, Jackson taught in Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia from 1994 until 2012 when she moved to Alexandria. This is her 29th year of teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson says she loves teaching kids of all ages because she has been \u201cteaching her whole life,\u201d as she is the second oldest of ten siblings. Jackson started playing the violin in fourth grade and won many awards and honors throughout school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially entering college at the University of Miami as an architecture major, Jackson quickly made the switch to studying music, saying, \u201cI spent more time in the music department than in math labs.\u201d She says she \u201ccould not deny the joy that I get from playing and the happiness working with young people brings me!\u201d Jackson studied at University of Miami for two years, then transferred to North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina where she graduated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson loves teaching orchestra because \u201cGenerally speaking, it is never the same day twice! I love working with students of all levels. They bring \u2018good opportunities\u2019 that challenges me to do more, do better, and even do differently. I, in turn, continue to want more from them. By that, I like to challenge them to see beyond themselves and expand their knowledge on everything.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson looks forward to being able to have an impact on her students as they begin to grow, and also to \u201cget them back on track if they lose their way. She continued, \u201cI have taught on all levels of education – elementary to college to adult learners. The high school students are like a blank slate.\u201d She wants her students to be like Dory, from the Disney Pixar movie Finding Nemo<\/em>, and \u201cjust keep swimming.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson\u2019s advice for her students is to \u201cshow up, pay attention, listenell the truth,\u201d and most importantly, \u201cdon\u2019t get attached to the outcome.\u201d She feels that the journey of learning through music is more important than the destination of achieving a high level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She feels that she has a \u201crenewed sense of purpose\u201d as she enters her 29th year in a new school. \u201cWe are the one high school in ACPS with beautiful diversity of students and staff, and, because the Titans are so loved by the entire Alexandria community, being a member of Titan family is literally my dream job! Everything happens to teach us something, to give us perspective, to challenge us. Everything that I have learned over these 29 years have prepared me for this opportunity. And I am ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackson came to T.C. from Hammond Middle School where she taught orchestra for eight years. Before teaching at Hammond, Jackson taught in Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia from 1994 until 2012 when she moved to Alexandria. This is her 29th year of teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}