All About Amy Ryan
Creating something new in the face of adversity will change your life.
The greater the adversity the greater the opportunity is.
Amy Ryan
I am a mother.
I love the joy that my children bring to my life.
I love the adventures that fill my memories.
I love to watch them learn through play and explore the world.
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I am a wife. I am thankful my husband supports my dream of changing the world.
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I am a daughter,
a sister, a friend,
a good neighbor,
a giving person,
and a kind human.
I am a teacher.
I see the good in my students everyday.
I encourage them to always do better.
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I will never stop fighting for a change in our traditional school stystem.
I could not find a solution,
so I became the solution.
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Learn My Way School will be individualized learning, not assinged by age and grade.​
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Learn My Way School will be a safe place for children to learn.
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Learn My Way School will be a home away from home, filled with laughter and joy.
My Education
Degrees
Master of Science in elementary education,
Area of Concentration: ESL/ELL
University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska
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Bachelor of Science in elementary education,
Endorsement: Special Education K-9th
University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska
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Work Experience
Special Education Teacher 2022-2023
Department Head of Special Education 2018-2022
Independent Contracted K-8th Special Education Teacher 2017-2018
Interventionist K-8th Grade Classroom Teacher 2013-2017
Classroom Teacher 2012-2013
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Trainings
The Lexia LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) Suite is comprehensive professional learning designed to provide early childhood and elementary educators and administrators with deep knowledge to be literacy and language experts in the science of reading.
Spalding combines an educational philosophy with a methodology consisting of time-tested principles of learning and instruction that are applied across the curricula. Diagnostic instruction means that during this daily interaction, teachers carefully observe each student’s progress and differentiate instruction to meet individual needs. They identify children who understand the model, those who will need extra help in small groups, and those who will need challenges.
This systematic, explicit instruction program delivers the right skills, in the right order, to help older students who have long struggled at the word level.
Rewards Program
The REWARDS® family is a powerful research-based, short-term, and specialized program for adolescent students in grades 4–12 who struggle reading long, multisyllabic words and comprehending content-area text. With explicit, systemic, teacher-led instruction, this intervention gives students new skills to unlock grade-level content-area text.
Nebraska Teaching Certificate and Permit
ELEMENTARY K-6 (K-8 SELF-CONTAINED CLASSROOM)
SPECIAL EDUCATION GENERALIST K-12
ESL/ELL
ELEMENTARY K-6 (K-8 SELF-CONTAINED CLASSROOM)
SPECIAL EDUCATION GENERALIST K-12