About Me

Update (6/1/2011):  I have transitioned into a new role at the wonderful school I work for:  PK-3 Master Teacher.  I have all the same responsibilities as I did as a literacy coach with some additions.  I now coach teachers in all subject areas, instead of just literacy.  I will be part of an evaluation team.  Each teacher in our school will be evaluated by our principal, a master teacher, and a mentor teacher.  For more information about TAP, check out their website:  TAP:  The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.  I am very excited about implementing TAP!

I am an elementary/middle school literacy coach who is married with one "child," our lazy but adorable cat.  I'm in my tenth year of teaching in a small, rural school (there are about 500 students PK-12).  I became a National Board Certified Teacher in Reading/Language Arts in 2010.  It was a very exciting way to end the year.

Reading is my passion and I love sharing that passion with my students and fellow teachers.  I hope that the teachers I coach think of me as a useful resource.  I love learning new ways to motivate students to learn.  The web has many great resources to get students involved and in charge of their own learning.  I want to share that with the teachers I work with.

My first foray into the world of creating on the web was with Wikispaces.  I named my wiki Thinking Out Loud.  I started the space as a place to store all the wonderful resources I was finding and make it easier to share with the teachers I work with.  Then I learned about blogs.  I liked the idea of blogging because it was easier to add commentary about why I thought the resource was useful.

I talked about some random things about myself in a post called "7 Things You Don't Need to Know About Me."