About Me

 
  I teach fourth grade at Lyle Creek Elementary School in Conover. I am completing my seventeenth year of teaching.   I taught fourth grade last year as well, but my personal preference is kindergarten which I taught for the first fifteen years of my career. I have two undergraduate degrees. I graduated in 1991 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Industrial Relations. I thought I wanted to work in a Human Relations setting. I moved to Pennsylvania and lived there for about a year. I was unable to find employment in this field, so I moved back home and began substitute teaching. I decided that I wanted to go back to school and get my degree in education.  I graduated from WCU in 1994 with my degree in Elementary Education. I got a job teaching kindergarten at Longview Elementary in Hickory. While this was a difficult school with many, many needs, I knew I had made the right decision. I love teaching.

As a kindergarten teacher, I had the privilege of watching my students develop as readers.  I was always amazed by this transformation.  While I felt very successful and had many students  become successful readers, there were always those students that I just could not seem to reach.  This is was the motivating factor that led me to the graduate program.  By obtaining my MA in Reading, I will have gained the knowledge necessary to make me a better teacher of reading.  It is my hope that I will be able to use the knowledge I have gained through the Master's program to reach all students and ensure that all children become successful readers.

I am married to Peter, who is also a teacher. We met at Longview, where he teaches second grade. We have one daughter, Kinsey. 

Contact Me

Hickory, NC 28601
(828)464-0299

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