• What did you want to be when you were younger?

“I wanted to play in the WNBA/become an art teacher”

 

• How did you get from that to being a teacher?

“My senior year in high school I was a mentor for 8th graders and discovered I liked working with and teaching kids”

• Was there a teacher that inspired you to be a teacher?

“There were several young female history teachers that influenced me. I was also influenced by teachers throughout my school career – even my kindergarten teacher who stayed involved in my life well past my high school graduation.”

• Does your sleep schedule get messed up over break?

“Yes, more over summer break”

• What’s your favorite thing about your job?

“I like laid back classes like yearbook and newspaper where I get to work with students to create something for the community”

• Favorite day of the week?

“Friday, my husband and I go out to eat and then watch ‘Shark Tank’”

• Strengths?

“I learn new things easily and like to learn”

• Weaknesses?

“I’m a people pleaser”

• What is your favorite thing to teach?

“I like to teach geography”

• What’s your favorite lesson to teach?

“Light painting in photography classes”

• Funniest memory teaching?

“Telling my 7th and 8th graders I got married. I asked them what lesson they learned from this and they said, ‘That you’re a liar!'”