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What inspires you from WFSU Public Media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. Shelly Bell, I am the director of career, technical, and adult education for Leon County Schools. So what I do is I have two primary roles. One is I oversee lively technical college, and the other is I work with our K-12 educators to develop career and technical education programs and career pathways in our elementary, middle, and high schools. I'm the daughter of a teacher, my mom taught for close to 30 years, and so she instilled at a very early age what it meant to be an educator and to help young people, and she was lucky enough to work at both the middle and high school level and also at the post-secondary level. Like her, I've been able to go to all three different levels. She was always passionate about making sure her students were successful, you know, many nights greeting papers, but also at the same time she'd always champion her students who did well, kept in touch with many of them. She's since passed away, but I remember even at her funeral having students that came up to my sisters and brother and I, and telling us the impact that she had on them. And so that really has stuck with me on making sure that I have that impact with the students that I come in contact with. I want to make sure that I'm doing everything I can to help to promote the jobs that exist in our community and then the training opportunities that are out there to make sure all people of all different skill levels have opportunities for that success. In my little way and in what I do over at Lively and with Leon County Schools, I feel like I am having an impact. We'll see how big of an impact maybe years after I'm gone, but I'm inspired just to help young people to find their pathway. Shelley Bell, Director of Career, Technical and Adult Education for Leon County Schools. You're listening to Voices That Inspire.