II am currently an Instructional Facilitator and Coach for K-2 students and teachers. I have previously taught first grade for eleven years and gifted and talented for eight years. I provide professional development training in the areas of social-emotional development and creativity for kindergarten through second grade.
Imagination, pretend play, and creativity have been pushed out of the classroom in favor of filling in bubbles on standardized tests. My goal is to encourage teachers and give them the means to return to what is developmentally approriate for our children.
Nationally Board Certified in Language Arts for Young Children Teacher of the Year Finalist PTA Teacher of the Year Presidential Award for Science and Math - State Finalist
BBA in Business Marketing BSE in Early Childhood Education Verified Trainer for Early Learning and Literacy in Arkansas Pre-K, Pre-K Frameworks, Social Emotional Learning for Pre-K, and Investigating, Discovering, and Exploring (science in the classroom) MSE in Gifted and Talented
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Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, Staff
English Language Arts, Reading, Specialty, Math, Geometry, Graphing, Numbers, Science, Chemistry, Arts & Music, Visual Arts, Other (Art), Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, Literature, Writing, Informational Text