For nearly three decades, Sheri Willrodt has been advocating for and helping special needs students advance during their time at Austin Public Schools.

For the last 15 years, she’s been the executive director of Special Services at Austin and throughout it all her work and the work of the department has been about one thing only.

The students themselves.

“It’s all about the kids,” Willrodt said. “It’s why I got into this field, why I stuck with this field for as many years as I did. This is not easy work, but it’s really important work and meaningful work and you feel like you accomplished something with your life that meant something.”

“When you see a student that is going in the right direction and making progress, it makes it all worth it,” she added.

She still has a couple months,

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