EDUCATION
Bachelors of Science Elementary Education (BS), Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Masters of School Administration (MSA), UNCG, Greensboro, NC
CAREER PATH
Teacher, Grade 2, Randolph County, 2006-2007
Teacher, Grade 4, Montgomery County, 1999-2006
Teacher, Grade 2, Montgomery County, 1997-1999
INTERESTS
cooking
baking
gardening
reading
UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
wife
mom (two daughters)
sister
born in Troy, NC
lived in Troy, Mt. Gilead, Seagrove, & currently Asheboro
UP CLOSE & PROFESSIONAL
FAVORITE PROFESSIONAL AUTHORS:
Todd Whitaker Robert Marzano
Douglas B. Reeves
Richard DuFour
FAVORITE CHILDRENS’ AUTHORS:
Kate DiCamillo Mary Pope Osborne
Judy Blume
Cynthia Rylant
Barbara Park
Nina Laden
David Shannon
FAVORITE QUOTES:
"Leaders who lead through learning understand that learning has only occurred when the human brain has been physically altered." ~ Dennis Sparks
"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." ~Jacob Bronowski
"Comparison, a great teacher told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others we lose the freedom to shape our own lives." ~Jim Collins
"Do not go where the path may lead; go where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished." ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson
“If we create an environment where each person does what is best for the students and for the school, we will seldom make a wrong decision." ~Todd Whitaker
“The courage to teach is the courage to keep one's heart open in those very moments when the heart is asked to hold more than it is able so that teacher and students and subject can be woven into the fabric of community that learning, and living, require." ~P. Palmer