My teaching license authorizes me to teach grades 3 through 8, and I hold specialized endorsements in health education, language arts, and ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages)
I am GLAD certified. GLAD stands for Guided Language Acquisition Design.
I have taught in the Salem-Keizer school district for three years.
I believe it is important to constantly be learning how to teach better, and I have participated in professional development opportunities after graduating college.
Some of them include:
Solution Tree PLC conference/Aug. 2010
Delving Deeper into Literacy course/spring 2010
Michael Grinder Seminar/April 2010
Writing Workshop: Planning a Unit of Study/spring 2010
Systematic ELD Institute/August 2009
ENVoY course/winter 2008
GLAD trained/August 2008
