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I attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for my undergraduate degree (BS.Ed.) in secondary education. My teaching fields were journalism and computer science. While at Baylor, I was a reporter for the college paper, The Lariat, for one semester and an editor for two semesters. I also studied abroad in England during the fall of my junior year. |
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I completed my master's degree in Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia in Athens. My specialty was applied cognition and development, and my master's thesis was an interview study with resistant high-school students. |
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I am currently a teacher in the language-arts department at Parkview
High School in Lilburn, GA., which is a national school of excellence.
My extracurricular involvement includes sponsoring the literary magazine and a service club (Volunteer Parkview, formerly known as the Interact Club), coordinating the school's Habitat for Humanity project, and keeping the books for the varsity basketball teams. Since I am always looking for ways to improve professionally, I am involved in Gwinnett County's high-school Gateway assessment program as a trainer, and I recently participated in Gwinnett County's Teachers as Leaders program. I also help judge high-school literary magazines for NCTE, and I have been grade-level chair for Parkview's language-arts department for several years.
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After I graduated from college, I moved to New Jersey where I briefly worked as an assistant in Rider University's alumni and development office. I also worked for two years as a publications editor for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, a national non-profit organization before I began teaching at Orange Middle School in Orange, N.J. (near Newark, NJ). |
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I enjoy sports like tennis and basketball, hiking and white-water rafting, and reading good books.
