Chelsea Miller is working in her first full-time year as an Instructional Aide/ Paraprofessional at Rye Elementary School. Hired to help students that might have fallen behind during COVID and remote learning, Miller is thrilled with the job.
She shared, “I love it! Before this, I was a certified nurse's assistant which is also very rewarding, but this is a totally different job. It is very rewarding to help the students that fell behind and make sure they don’t get left there. It is interesting and fun, every day is different.”
Miller also shared that she rotates through the elementary school classrooms and generally, assists two to five students from each classroom. She works with the third, fourth, and fifth-grade students, mostly with math or reading subjects.
The Instructional Aide/Paraprofessional position is considered a nonrenewable position, which means it must be re-applied for each year. Miller said she just loves to work with the students and is quite hopeful that the position will be renewed for many years.
Miller lives in Colorado City and is grateful to have found a job she enjoys that is right in her neighborhood. It also lets her stay in touch with her own children. She is a mother to three children, two of which attend Rye Elementary and one that attends Craver Middle School. Miller and co-parent Jerry Maglietto are happy to be able to work locally and to attend and help with the children’s sports, activities, and education.
Maglietto helps coach 12U Baseball and also Bantam league football, and works for locally-owned High-Country Fence.
Miller loves the Greenhorn Valley and its people. She said, “I have been here since I was about ten years old. Our family was military and moved a lot before that. When we settled down here it was the longest I had ever lived in one place and the longest I had ever had friendships. I established roots and, although I did move to Pueblo when I was twenty, I moved back to raise my children in the valley. This is a great place to raise a family.”