Educational Background:

I graduated from Leopold High School in 1975. After a period of starting a family and moving around the country with my husband's job, we moved back home and I began classes at Southeast Missouri State University in 1985. I graduated with a degree in secondary education in 1991 but later decided to get elementary certification which was completed in 1994. My graduate degree was completed in 2000.

Teaching Experience:

I began my teaching experience at Immaculate Conception School in Jackson, Missouri in 1994. I taught 8th grade with several periods of 7th grade classes. My year spent at IC was rewarding and uplifting. However, in the spring of 1995, a teaching position opened at Leopold Elementary. I applied for the job and subsequently was hired for the 4th grade. Shortly thereafter, the 5th grade position also became vacant, and I decided that might be a better fit for me, so I applied for that position. That's where I had been for the past twenty-four years. I love my job, and I love my students. It was been said that the perfect job is like getting paid for recess, and that's what I feel like--I am getting paid to do a job that I absolutely love!!! Now I am back teaching English after a short retirement. It's a challenge, but I love it!

Class Schedule for 2019-2020

First Hour- English I

Second Hour- Prep

Third Hour- Dual Credit English

Fourth Hour- 8th Grade English

Fifth Hour- English IV

Sixth Hour- English II

Seventh Hour- English III

Homework:

I usually assign some for each subject, but most students manage to complete it during study time.

Family:

My family consists of my husband Don, who has his own consulting business, PET Process Solutions. We have four children: Shawn, Scott (Cassie), Matt, and Erin, and seven (wonderful!) grandchildren: Calli, who is attending college and living in Cape Girardeau; Emma, a 6th grader at Jackson Middle School; Brecklen and Brenner, twins who attend West Lane in Jackson; Kate, who is a 1st grade in Gordonville; Luke, turning five in January; and his baby sister, Kaia, who will be two in Feburary. They are definitely the light of our lives!!

Other Interests/Hobbies:

I definitely must put family on top of my list, as they are the center of my life. Next to them, however, I love cats and anything about them. (That may be why we currently have four cats or to put it more accurately, they tolerate us!) Their names: Annie, Sophie, Little Gray, and Socks. We have also added a new puppy to our family- Maggie. She is a handful! I also love to garden and putter with flowers, read, and travel. After 45 years of marriage, spending time with my husband is still great fun, and our time spent together is wonderful!

Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019

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