- 40 years in the field of education: - 34 years as a classroom teacher. - 1 year experience as a Highly Skilled Educator for the Kentucky Department of Education, serving assigned school to improve instruction and assessment. - 5 years serving as a resource teacher
Follow my career from a teacher-centered classroom to a kid-centered classroom and find out how the transformation created purpose and joy in the profession I love!
Ashland Oil Golden Apple Educator Award Kentucky Council of the Social Studies Outstanding Teacher Award Kentucky Department of Education Highly Skilled Educator Boyd County Public Schools Teacher Hall of Fame Oasis School Public Relations Award
B.A. Degree in Secondary Education (English major) - Marshall University M.A. Degree in Education - Morehead State University
Training in - History Alive Strategies - Thoughtful Classroom Strategies - Professional Learning Communities. - Standards Setting Committees - Literacy Design Collaborative
PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, Adult Education, Homeschool, Staff, Not Grade Specific
English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Arithmetic, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Earth Sciences, Social Studies, Ancient History, Civics, Government, U.S. History, European History, World History, Other (Specialty), Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (Social Studies), Other (ELA), For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Statistics, School Counseling, Economics , Character Education, Word Problems, Instructional Technology, Physical Science, Library Skills, Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Halloween, Winter, Martin Luther King Day, Decimals, Black History Month, For All Subjects, Women's History Month, Classroom Community