Hello! My name is Jamie Strong. My clan is red people running into the water, I am born for many mules people and my maternal grandparents are manygoats people, my paternal grandparents are deerspring people. I am a member of the Navajo tribe and I live in Toneala, Arizona, but born in Tuba City (IHS). I'm twenty years old. I grow up on the Reservation. I was put in Boarding School when I was 10 years-old through my high school years and still today I live in the dorms. I enjoy reading mystery novels, watching movies, taking long quiet walks, drawing landscape in color pencils and having to work with young children. I attended NAU in 1997 as a STAR student in the summer seccion and started in the Fall of 1997. I wanted to go to the University to expand my knowledge and take the knowledge I learn back to my People (Dine´). I had an interested in Nursing profession, but decided that I liked working with younger students. That is how I decided to become a teacher.

I have little experience working with students with disabilities. I have observed a teacher helping a student with a disability. To me it looks challenging and takes time. I know that I have the patience and the motivation to help or assist the student. That is just an over view of my interests, where I was born and how I came to NAU. Also, my experiences in working with students with disability.