Michelle Magolia
Arlington Community Schools
Board games, coloring books, and crafts. These items and so much more littered across Mrs. Michelle Magolia’s room. From fun buzzers to interactive technology, Mrs. Michelle keeps her students engaged, and active during her sessions with students. Enjoying working with kids, Mrs. Michelle has felt a calling to help youth prosper in their daily life. “I’m a kid person. To me setting up a child for their future, that just inspires me.”
Studious and attentive, Mrs. Magolia studied at Baptist University, she enjoyed how this career had options in both the medical field and in the educational field. “It was like a middle ground between being a teacher and a nurse.”
Being one of the counselors at Arlington community schools, she encounters multiple students with different types of speech and language impediments. Her job entails working with “kids that have a little trouble with their fluency, stuttering, or their arms… and then on the other hand I do language therapy… working on their vocabulary, and getting them to, if they’re nonverbal, I try to help them become verbal by using devices or their own speech.”
Having worked with Shelby County schools, she is no stranger to working with students here in Tennessee. Having helped students of all ages, she said a favorite of hers was a middle school student who struggled with stuttering. “This child had stuttered, basically his whole life, and was very scared to talk in class. And after a whole semester of working with him, he came out of his shell, and was able to stand in front of the class and read his paper.”
Passionately serving the students at the Arlington Community schools, she says for anyone inspiring to work in this field, “Make sure that you have the heart for it, because you really have to care about the kids.”
Mrs. Michele Magolia is looking forward to a great year working with students at Arlington Community Schools
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