22 year teacher. First in Special Education ED & LD in VA (Burke Center-Burke School) and MA (Walsh MS and Gifford School) then LD inclusion @ Collins and then 6th grade MATH/Science @ Collins and then 5th and 3rd @ McArthur in NC. Currently teaching 5th/6th (looping) at TISA- Taos Integrated School of the Arts in TAOS, NM.

Participated in several technology integration grants, an ESL Quality Educators Academy, Wilson Training, & Applied Control Theory Training

Wheelock College, Boston, Ma; Graduate (1990) double Moderate Special Needs and Elementary Majors with English and Philosophy minors.

Continuing ED classes with: Fayetteville State, Salem State and Framingham State Colleges. Masters Degree work at Cambridge College in Cambridge, MA. Currently in the Lesley Integrated Arts and Technology Masters Degree Cohort in Sante Fe, NM.

Loves: family, to travel, history, archaeology, genealogy, books, musicals, theatre, movies, puzzles, cross stich, crafts, folk and jazz music...

An Optimistic Idealist, mother of a precocious 7 year old, oldest daughter of a graphic artist and theatre director for the army who met in the Peace Corps in Peru, 4th generation teacher on my father's side; 1/2 English, 1/4 German, 1/4 Scotch-Irish,

Born in Frankfurt, Germany, moved to Manchester England, Grew up in Newport News, VA and Baumholder, Germany, Finished HS in Groton and Townsend, MA and went to College in Boston and Cambridge, MA