This year will mark my 20th year of teaching, I have had the opportunity to teach children with handicaps and/or learning disabilities as well as those that are gifted. These experiences have shaped me into the teacher that I am today. It is my belief that all students can learn and it is my responsibility to provide a positive, nurturing, and safe place in which my students can be successful. It is my hope that my students will forever fondly remember their fourth grade experience because I touched their lives in a special way. I truly enjoy teaching fourth graders and being a part of their lives for the brief time that I have them!

My son and I moved to Austin in 2001, so we could be near family and friends. I taught 4th grade at Widén Elementary for six years. I was fortunate enough to be hired as a fourth grade teacher at Boone Elementary for the school year beginning August 2007.

My son graduated and moved to Salt Lake City. I'm now a very proud grandmother to a very beautiful granddaughter.

I married my husband in 2005. We adopted a wild mustang in October 2006 that we are training together. I'm a lover of animals and am lucky enough that my husband indulges me enough to buy me a wide assortment of pets. We have one horse (Edsel), one cat (Q-Tip), one lovebird (Melvin), a Beagle puppy named Toby, and an aquarium full of fish (We just call them fish). I also have a guinea pig named Shadow as a classroom pet.