Frankfort, Kentucky, United States
I am an 8 grade teacher with 14 years of experience in teaching, literacy, curriculum design, technology and Arts integration among other things. I enjoy facilitating the creation of our middle school yearbook, presenting professional development in various venues including my school in differentiation, technology integration, reading and writing, web 2.0 tools, etc. I enjoy writing on the side and have two young adult novels "nearly complete" and have a blog page- http://middlewriter.blogspot.com/ I have just started. See also my Linkedin under Walton-Verona Middle School.
7/8 grade English/Language Arts teacher and Yearbook Advisor at WVMS
Responsible for feedback on student papers, creating writing guidance through resources, text and Jing videos, posting grades, email communication, tutoring/guidance for writing skills, and working with ESL students to improve writing skills.
Worked as an online professional development specialist in online professional development for teachers in a variety of reading/writing/technology and arts focused courses using Blackboard. Also trained and worked as a course designer for online professional development modules using Blackboard.