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Chrissy Romano Arrabito is a career teacher and proud of it! She is currently an elementary teacher at Nellie K. Parker Elementary School in Hackensack, New Jersey and has over 26 years of experience as an elementary and middle school teacher. She graduated from Rutgers University where she studied Sociology and Psychology. She went on to complete the Teacher Certification program and earned a Masters Degree in Counseling from William Paterson University. Chrissy is dedicated to teaching the whole child, stimulating and supporting innovation in classrooms, and strives to provide authentic learning experiences for her students. Her true passion lies in nurturing the quiet kids, those that tend to fall through the cracks, those that truly need a champion to support and advocate for them. She is the author of, Quiet Kids Count: Unleashing the True Potential, Book 3 in the Lead Forward Series, which presents stories and strategies to make space for the quiet kids and find ways to amplify their voices and unleash their true potential.
We discussed the following with Chrissy:
What is one thing people don’t realize about quiet kids? 
What is the biggest challenge teachers have to overcome when working with quiet kids?
What is the best piece of advice you can give for working with or being accommodating to an introverted student?
How can we apply all these concepts when interacting with adults who may be introverted?
What is/are the biggest takeaways that you want from the readers?
Resources
@TheConnectedEdu
Quiet Kids Count: Unleashing the True Potential of Introverts
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