Title: Special Education Teacher

Company: New York City Department of Education

Location: Brooklyn, N.Y.

Attributing 35 years of success to her tenacity and work ethics, Judith Kinard-Wright continues as a special education teacher for the New York City Department of Education. There, she provides expertise in training, teaching and developing social skills for emotionally and developmentally challenged children. Throughout her work-week, Ms. Kinard-Wright educates the prekindergarten through second-grade students in a self-contained classroom, whilst coordinating literacy programs, training teachers, and developing mathematics curriculum for special students up to the 12^th grade. As a woman in today’s world what has contributed to Judith’s success is keeping up with new changes.  She is constantly educating herself on the Common Core. The advice she would give the younger generation of women entering the workforce would be to keep up with changes that are going on.  Take directives from administration.  You must have patience because the job working with elementary Autistic students is tedious and not easy. In five years, Ms. Kinard-Wright hopes to be in a management position or open her own holistic school for children.