I am very excited to be back in the profession of teaching and able to show my enthusiasm in the classroom again!  In 2004, I graduated from Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO, with my Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education and a minor in Early Childhood Education.  I taught for five years in second grade at South Elementary School here in Jefferson City.  While teaching there, I obtained my Master's Degree in Elementary Teaching with an emphasis in Instructional Technology from Lincoln University in Jefferson City.  I then transferred to the Fulton Public School District, where I taught for two years.  I taught first grade and second grade at McIntire Elementary School.  I then left the profession of teaching and went back to school at Lincoln University to obtain my Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing and became a Registered Nurse.  I worked as an RN for three years and then came to realize that my true passion is in teaching children.  So, I have entered back in the teaching profession and recently started in October, 2020, as the 7th  grade Reading Teacher for Team Challengers at Lewis and Clark Middle School, amongst a pandemic, nonetheless!  I am so very happy with my decision and am thrilled to be working with students once again!  So, after all that, I am now entering my eighth year of teaching and plan to teach for the rest of my professional career.

I attended East Elementary, Lewis and Clark Middle School, and Jefferson City High School, where I graduated in the class of 2000.  It is so great to be back teaching in the school district where I attended as a student myself!  I have a one-year old daughter named Maylin, who has my entire heart.  Things I enjoy, besides her, are exercise, sunshine, READING, traveling, my friends and family, sports (Nebraska Cornhuskers, Kansas City Royals and Kansas City Chiefs), ice cream, smiling, my faith and checking off items on To-Do lists!