Inspirational Insights From This Side

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To Whom it May Concern,     My name is Lije Purellku and I am pursuing a career where I can apply my knowledge of Childhood Education towards a future career in teaching. I have completed my certification in Childhood Education (grades 1-6) as well as the NYSED appropriate teaching certifications. I also have a pending advanced certification in Special Education. My certifications are proof of my passion for teaching ALL students and fostering a positive learning environment where diversity and different and effective learning styles are constantly encouraged. My  experiences in several Elementary School classrooms have driven me to broaden my preferential teaching positions—to a Teacher Assistant position, or a resource room  position . I understand the importance of a curriculum that provides understanding concepts of various cultures, including various languages. I also completed an Autism training workshop in addition to my college studies of managing/a...

Blog readers, I wrote a strong-worded [but still short] letter to the Americans with Disabilities Act people. I am not mean. Just sick and tired of smashing my wheelchair  into inaccessible doors struggling trying to hold them open, damaging my wheelchair parts, ripping my shoe straps, breaking my cupholders. These things cost money man. Check out the letter below in "read more". I hope they don't just ignore me... ------- To Whom it May Concern, Please take this message kindly and seriously. It is not intended to judge or negatively criticize, but to raise some awareness of how the Civil Rights Law THAT SHOULD BE protected under the ADA is being violated. My name is Lije Purellku. I am a 30 year old college graduate and a handicapped individual. Among my many struggles: completing school with a mobility impairment, and struggling to find employment; I am dismayed at the violation of peoples’ most basic daily needs–that is the simple access to buildings/services....

click>>  SHOTS OF AWE* " Yo u look up at the sky, do you see a lovely arrangement of clouds, or do you have a flash of the earth as a planet with an atmosphere, a little inconsequential planet floating in a dark vastness . . . ?! And if the latter, for how long can you hold that perception? In my experience few people can live close to death, but that's frequently where great art comes from. But those who always see not lovely clouds but earth with an atmosphere are usually heavily into drink or something, shopping, because the embrace of our actual condition is unbearable even for those strong enough to live close to the idea. . . " -Professor Igor Webb, Adelphi University.

-The way to stop discrimination on the basis of disability is to stop discriminating on the basis of disability- It is very interesting how things work... I am fully-qualified to be an Elementary School Teacher. I have successfully completed all of my NYS teaching certification exams, all pertinent Childhood Education courses and studies, all relevant workshops/training, appropriate NYS fingerprinting, student teaching and participant observer hours in classroom settings. I have worked directly with many Elementary students—analyzing their performance, adjusting lesson plans to best accommodate their learning needs, recording their progression, and implementing guided reading and classroom discussions. I have gotten excellent grades and education-related assessment feedback which proves my high teaching qualifications. I have had many professional advisors/mentors/supervisors, [who have had many years experiences involved in the Education field [teaching or administration] advis...

“ Lying there in the dark with the uncanny taste of a peach from some phantom orchard fading in his mouth. He thought if he lived long enough the world at last would all be lost. Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory.” - Cormac McCarthy So if you’re born with a disability or a mobility/intellectual impairment of some sort, you actually don’t know what it’s really like to be able to walk, to be able to write, talk, hear, or see. So if you really think about it, in a strange way, it’s somewhat better that way because you don’t have the disheartening feeling of having lost something. Unfortunately, I do. When I was younger, I was everything a “normal” child was—running, jumping, dancing, playing. Now I’ve lost that. Now I’m in a wheelchair. Now I’m experiencing living/“inhabiting” in a new world. I’ve been living in this new world for so long now, that what used to be is like Cormac McCarthy’s “dying world” to me and what it used to be ...