{"id":116,"date":"2014-09-25T17:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T17:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/franklin\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:02:31","slug":"tracey-watkins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/about\/staff\/tracey-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Watkins-Gobbeo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Position:<\/em> Early Childhood Autism Teacher\"\"<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/em> watkint1@milwaukee.k12.wi.us<\/a><\/p>\n

Education: <\/em>\u00a0I have a Bachelor\u2019s in Science in Education from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Master\u2019s in Professional Counseling from Concordia University.<\/p>\n

What was your favorite grade as a kid and why? \u00a0<\/em>My favorite grade was 4th<\/sup> grade because of my teachers Mrs. Weede and Mrs. Minkus.\u00a0 They made me love coming to school!<\/p>\n

What do you want most for the students at Franklin?\u00a0 <\/em>I want the students at Franklin to know that they are LOVED and that I can instill the strength in them to believe in themselves no matter what!!!<\/p>\n

Who is someone you admire and why?<\/em>\u00a0 I admire my mother.\u00a0 My mother had cancer and several other illnesses caused by her cancer.\u00a0 She fought the illnesses for 11 years.\u00a0 In that 11 years, she lived her life to the fullest no matter what was thrown at her way.\u00a0 She had so much strength, courage and most of all the fight to live!!!<\/p>\n

What is the best piece of advice you got as a kid?<\/em>\u00a0 The best piece of advice I got as a kid was to just keep going and don\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n

What are some of your interests outside of the school day?<\/em> \u00a0\u00a0My interests outside of school are to spend time with family, go to the gym, drive my Camaro, enjoy being outside\u00a0in the summer, traveling, going out to dinner with family, shopping, playing with my dogs, cooking special foods for the holidays, and being silly with my daughters.<\/p>\n

What are people sometimes surprised to learn about you?<\/em>\u00a0 People are sometimes surprised to learn that I have a sense of humor and can be very outgoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Position: Early Childhood Autism Teacher Contact: watkint1@milwaukee.k12.wi.us Education: \u00a0I have a Bachelor\u2019s in Science in Education from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and a Master\u2019s in Professional Counseling from Concordia University. What was your favorite grade as a kid and why? \u00a0My favorite grade was 4th grade because of my teachers Mrs. Weede and Mrs. Minkus.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-116","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/franklin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}