{"id":128392,"date":"2022-05-07T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=128392"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:32:13","slug":"former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Foster Care Child, Now Mother of 3 Reaches Goal of Becoming Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAre you sure you want to do this? If you failed once, you\u2019re probably going to fail again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And with that, Jeanette Marie Reynoso received some of the worst advice ever given by a college counselor. Reynoso was shocked. She thought the indifference and casual cruelty she encountered in her youth was behind her. But she dried her tears, picked herself up and enrolled in Seminole State College, the first step on a path that has led her to UCF and halfway to realizing a lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to be a teacher my entire life,\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cI was that kid who would ask for a blackboard for Christmas and I would teach to my stuffed animals. When my cousins came over, I would make them worksheets on notebook paper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But her own experience with schooling \u2014 and with life \u2014 started out rocky. As a young girl growing up in Bergen County, New Jersey, Reynoso never knew her father. Then, at the age of 12, her mother dropped her off at a sleepover and never came back. Reynoso\u2019s sixth-grade reading teacher helped her get into foster care, but the group home she ended up at didn\u2019t allow her to attend school. A teacher would visit regularly, but the lessons were basic and unstructured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read hundreds of books because we weren\u2019t allowed to watch TV,\u201d Reynoso says. \u201cThat was really where my love of reading started.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed oembed oembed-video d-flex flex-column align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><noscript><iframe title=\"Mother&#039;s Day Means More for This UCF Graduate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AzsaZTtapV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><iframe title=\"Mother&#039;s Day Means More for This UCF Graduate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AzsaZTtapV0?feature=oembed\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reynoso moved on from that facility at 14 and was finally able to attend high school. But having gone without formal instruction for so long, she struggled. Reynoso dropped out a year later and started working full time. Then, when she turned 18, she aged out of the foster care system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe director of the group home said, \u2018The state won\u2019t pay for you to stay here anymore,\u2019 and I asked her what I was supposed to do,\u2019\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cShe said \u2018A lot of people go to college,\u2019 and I said \u2018OK, I guess I\u2019ll do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynoso got good scores on the SATs and was accepted to all five colleges to which she had applied. She settled on Fairleigh Dickinson College because it was right around the corner from her group home. For the first time in years, Reynoso was felt hope, pride and a sense that the worst might be behind her. But those positive thoughts were shattered on move-in day at the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got there and everything was out of my league,\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cEveryone was there with their parents, moving into the dorm, and I showed up by myself carrying a black plastic bag. I had the clothes I had taken from my group home and that was it. I remember just crying my eyes out. That was in August and I only made it to October before I left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After her false start in college, Reynoso spent a year volunteering for AmeriCorps, an experience that rekindled her passion for teaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy year in AmeriCorps was in one of the roughest school districts in New Jersey, and it was the most transformative year of my life,\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cI wrote an after-school literacy program for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not long after that, Reynoso met Miguel, the man who would become her husband. Suddenly, she went from having no family to being embraced by a huge one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was in the foster care system, I didn\u2019t have any family,\u201d Reynoso says. \u201cWhen my husband and I met, I said \u2018Tell me about your family,\u2019 and he said \u2018Well, I have 12 aunts and uncles and dozens of cousins.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of her husband\u2019s family lived in Florida, so they decided to move to the Orlando area. After having three children, Reynoso decided to go back to school to be a teacher. She started inquiring at local colleges, which led to that disheartening interaction with an academic advisor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left that meeting in tears. I said to myself, \u2018What was I thinking? I\u2019m meant to be a stay-at-home mom,\u2019 \u201d Reynoso says. \u201cMy husband said, \u2018Do not let this one person dictate your future.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>With support from her husband, she enrolled at Seminole State College and immediately set about proving the advisor wrong. Reynoso earned straight A\u2019s throughout her time at SSC and finished with a 4.0 GPA, all while balancing her classwork with her responsibilities at home.<\/p>\n<p>After earning her associates degree, Reynoso took advantage of the DirectConnect program to continue her schooling at UCF. At first, the transition was overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I stepped foot on campus, in January 2020, I remember thinking, \u2018What am I doing?,\u2019 \u201d says Reynoso. \u201cThere were flyers up everywhere for different clubs and events and I\u2019m thinking \u2018Yeah, I go to bed at nine o\u2019clock. How am I going to fit in here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long, however, for Reynoso to settle in and start taking advantage of the some of the programs UCF offers to support students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a flyer that said \u2018Get on the Knight track.\u2019 If you took a bunch of different steps, like meeting with an academic advisor, going to two workshops and meeting with SARC (the Student Academic Resource Center), you\u2019d get a $500 scholarship,\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cThat\u2019s how I ended up applying for McNair Scholars. It was a catalyst for all of these really cool things that I got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then along came COVID. Ironically, some of the same pandemic-driven changes that caused many students to struggle actually helped Reynoso excel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving classes online made it really easy for me to be active and participate in things where I wouldn\u2019t have been able to be on campus in person,\u201d Reynoso says. \u201cSome meet ups were at six in the evening, when I\u2019d be in the middle of making dinner for my family. But I could Zoom while throwing together a salad. In this case, technology really helped me feel integrated and feel like I belonged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a couple of years and Reynoso has excelled in her pursuit of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/elementary-education-bs\/\">elementary education degree<\/a>. &nbsp;She participated in the Phillips Academy Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) summer program, which prepares future educators to pursue advanced degrees. Last summer, Reynoso also studied virtually at Vanderbilt 海角直播 as part of the Leadership Alliance summer research program.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of her other responsibilities at school and at home, Reynoso finds time to volunteer, helping students through a number of UCF programs, including Saturday reading camps and the university\u2019s bookmobile initiative, which gives away free books to kids who don\u2019t have access to a library. Reynoso also volunteers on an ongoing basis at the ACE (Academic Center of Excellence) school in the Parramore neighborhood of Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>All this experience in the field left Reynoso well prepared for her current role as a full-time student teacher at Bentley Elementary School in Seminole County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it was time for me to be in my own classroom, I was ready,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>On the cusp of both graduating and turning 36, she\u2019s still not done proving that old advisor wrong. Reynoso was recently accepted into the UCF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/elementary-education-ma\/\">master\u2019s program for elementary education<\/a>. From there, she hopes to become a &#8220;triple knight,&#8221; earning her doctorate in the same subject. Ultimately, Reynoso wants to become the superintendent of a school district, a position that will allow her to exercise her love of teaching while &#8220;trickling down&#8221; some of the lessons she&#8217;s learned over years of being involved in education and activism.<\/p>\n<p>Her message to other parents is to not shy away from filling up their days in pursuit if their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest misconceptions about going to college is that there\u2019s a point in time when you\u2019re too old to do it,\u201d says Reynoso. \u201cIt\u2019s not easy juggling childcare and pickups and making meals and all those other things.&nbsp; But you can do this. School is for you, and you can join clubs and meet people and be a part of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so glad I took the leap,\u201d she says. \u201cBeing a Knight really has changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent spring graduate Jeanette Marie Reynoso shares her unlikely path to achieving her dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":128393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[17177,1004,1521,54196],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-128392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-student-life","tag-college-of-community-innovation-and-education","tag-commencement","tag-elementary-education","tag-value"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Foster Care Child, Now Mother of 3 Reaches Goal of Becoming Teacher | 海角直播 News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recent spring graduate Jeanette Marie Reynoso shares her unlikely path to achieving her dream.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Foster Care Child, Now Mother of 3 Reaches Goal of Becoming Teacher\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Recent spring graduate Jeanette Marie Reynoso shares her unlikely path to achieving her dream.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"海角直播 News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-08T01:06:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-26T14:32:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/05\/Jeanette-Marie-Reynoso.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nicole Dudenhoefer '17\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9d80c5f96623baaf4ec084540ceb2407\"},\"headline\":\"Former Foster Care Child, Now Mother of 3 Reaches Goal of Becoming Teacher\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-08T01:06:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-26T14:32:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1387,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/former-foster-care-child-now-mother-of-3-reaches-goal-of-becoming-teacher\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2022\\\/05\\\/Jeanette-Marie-Reynoso.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"College of Community Innovation and Education\",\"Commencement\",\"Elementary Education\",\"value\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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