Salma
As soon as we meet her, Salma is telling us all of her favorite things about school. “The best thing is playing soccer outside…and music…but especially art.” Then she smiles with a shrug, “Well, it’s fun to do so many things!”
She’s a long way from the girl she use to be. “Salma was painfully shy when she first arrived for kindergarten,” her ACE teacher tells us. “But today Salma’s confidence is blossoming and she’s thriving.”
Salma’s parents are also both quiet, but each day as they drop their daughter off at school they are amazed to see her run off to greet her friends. In fact, Salma is getting so confident that she’ll even speak on stage – in either English or Spanish.
When asked if she could go anywhere in the world, where it would be, Salma quickly replies, “To school – and someday I want to be a teacher!”
From a shy, reserved child to wanting to teach other children some day… that’s the power of a good education.
