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Seralina McCormick- Danielson is a Pacific Islander. Her mother is from the island of Tonga and her father hails from the state of California. After meeting at Brigham Young University Hawaii and getting married two years later, her father embarked on his military career and her mother became a school teacher. Hawaii remained her father’s home base, so after every tour or assignment, the family would go back to spend time there. Eventually Seralina ended up attending and graduating from High School in Hawaii.
Some of the places she has lived include Utah, Guam, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas, Washington State, and Japan. She has been to most of the 50 states and visited other countries such as Korea, Saipan, Tonga, and Samoa. She grew up in melting pots of races and religions. Being exposed to a variety of places, cultures, and beliefs, Seralina learned at a young age that active listening can have a big impact on establishing respectful relationships. She also learned to appreciate differences in people and that all beliefs and cultures offer such rich perspectives. It helped her develop an appreciation for different types of music, literature, and art. These areas became her early passions and a powerful way to connect with people, even if they did not speak the same language. While living in Japan during her middle school and early highschool years, she developed an interest in Manga, or Japanese comic books. She also had been used to watching afternoon cartoons in elementary school in the U.S. When she discovered anime, it really helped her realize the potential cartoons or animation had in unlocking a person’s imagination. J-Pop was also a music genre she discovered. This helped her to really connect with her student population that loved anime and K-Pop music at the middle school she later would work at.
Being around military bases and military lifestyles and cultures, she also developed an appreciation and strong connection with The Consitution of the United States, the guaranteed freedoms we have, and the sacrifice made by those who wanted to protect their families, loved ones, and lands from tyranny and war. She witnessed how miltary families were affected by the hardships of war, unaccompanied tours, and the roigourous training needed for soldiers. She came to realize that just in any society, there were a variety of occupations that soldiers held such as doctors, lawyers, mechanics, infantry, food specialists, teachers, etc. Although these service men and women, who were from a wide array of backgrounds, races, and religious beliefs, were soldiers first, they also held other careers and oftenhad families to support. Military bases also didn’t consist of just soldiers or people signed up for the miltary. Many civilians or non military personel were also employed to help support life on a military base. Civilian lawyers, teachers, and other personnel, with their families, could be found working here too.
Seralina is a divorced mother of two adult children. She started her career working three minimum wage jobs to make ends meet. One of those jobs was as a para-educator. While working under this title, she discovered her passion and found encouragement and support to become a teacher of special education. After ten years as a paraeducator, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree and certification in Special Education K-12 and Elementary Education K-8. She taught for five years as a middle school Language Arts teacher and special education literacy support for Tier 3. Later she became a Teacher Leader or Facilitator of Special Education at a nearby elementary school while completing a Master’s Degree in M.S., Instruction and Curriculum Design. She is currently working on getting her AdministrativeLlicense and Certification in Education.
Seralina McCormick- Danielson is a Pacific Islander. Her mother is from the island of Tonga and her father hails from the state of California. After meeting at Brigham Young University Hawaii and getting married two years later, her father embarked on his military career and her mother became a school teacher. Hawaii remained her father’s home base, so after every tour or assignment, the family would go back to spend time there. Eventually Seralina ended up attending and graduating from High School in Hawaii.
Some of the places she has lived include Utah, Guam, Ohio, Mississippi, Texas, Washington State, and Japan. She has been to most of the 50 states and visited other countries such as Korea, Saipan, Tonga, and Samoa. She grew up in melting pots of races and religions. Being exposed to a variety of places, cultures, and beliefs, Seralina learned at a young age that active listening can have a big impact on establishing respectful relationships. She also learned to appreciate differences in people and that all beliefs and cultures offer such rich perspectives. It helped her develop an appreciation for different types of music, literature, and art. These areas became her early passions and a powerful way to connect with people, even if they did not speak the same language. While living in Japan during her middle school and early highschool years, she developed an interest in Manga, or Japanese comic books. She also had been used to watching afternoon cartoons in elementary school in the U.S. When she discovered anime, it really helped her realize the potential cartoons or animation had in unlocking a person’s imagination. J-Pop was also a music genre she discovered. This helped her to really connect with her student population that loved anime and K-Pop music at the middle school she later would work at.
Being around military bases and military lifestyles and cultures, she also developed an appreciation and strong connection with The Consitution of the United States, the guaranteed freedoms we have, and the sacrifice made by those who wanted to protect their families, loved ones, and lands from tyranny and war. She witnessed how miltary families were affected by the hardships of war, unaccompanied tours, and the roigourous training needed for soldiers. She came to realize that just in any society, there were a variety of occupations that soldiers held such as doctors, lawyers, mechanics, infantry, food specialists, teachers, etc. Although these service men and women, who were from a wide array of backgrounds, races, and religious beliefs, were soldiers first, they also held other careers and oftenhad families to support. Military bases also didn’t consist of just soldiers or people signed up for the miltary. Many civilians or non military personel were also employed to help support life on a military base. Civilian lawyers, teachers, and other personnel, with their families, could be found working here too.
Seralina is a divorced mother of two adult children. She started her career working three minimum wage jobs to make ends meet. One of those jobs was as a para-educator. While working under this title, she discovered her passion and found encouragement and support to become a teacher of special education. After ten years as a paraeducator, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree and certification in Special Education K-12 and Elementary Education K-8. She taught for five years as a middle school Language Arts teacher and special education literacy support for Tier 3. Later she became a Teacher Leader or Facilitator of Special Education at a nearby elementary school while completing a Master’s Degree in M.S., Instruction and Curriculum Design. She is currently working on getting her AdministrativeLlicense and Certification in Education.
Fun Fact: Seralina loves to dress up! She likes to cosplay and be creative in the use of every day items to create fun costumes.
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