Thanks for visiting the least visited page of all websites! I could bore you to tears with my educational philosophy, my vantage on classroom management and my conviction regarding the IB Diploma Programme... but I decided against it!
You need to know the basics:
Mi familia: I'm a wife and a mom (my most important
jobs)--my husband and I have two boys, a giant black lab and two crazy cats, a bearded dragon (Leonard), a guinea pig (Penny), a flock of chickens, some pigs, and a handful of guinea hens. We love to be outdoors and both of my boys enjoy sports (so do the dog and the husband, actually)... they play basketball, shoot their paintball guns, drive go-carts and four wheelers, and the oldest is addicted to baseball. (And...they are considerably bigger than they appear in the photo to the left.)
Number of Years in Education: 16 --Horseheads MS (1/2), CPP (15)
Degrees:
NYS Advanced Regents (Avoca Central School, 1996)
BA English Literature & Secondary Education (Elmira College, 2000)
MA Curriculum & Instruction (University of Phoenix, 2005)
Fav Music:
~anything at all that my parents listened to (Neil Diamond, Steely Dan, the Beach Boys), ~anything classic (that means 20+ years old)...sometimes classic and big-haired (Aerosmith, AC/DC, Warrant, Tesla), anything with a slight hippie-flare (Dave Matthews Band, Tea Leaf Green, Donna the Buffalo,
Mumford & Sons, Noah & the Whale, The Avett Brothers, the Old 97s) ~basically anything... including Nikki Manaj and Snoop Dogg (should we call him Snoop Lion?), Jay-Z (that's right) and some other crazy selections...
Fav Books:
Orwell's 1984, Walker's The Color Purple, Waller's Overdrive, Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and a gazillion others...Seriously? I'm an English teacher and can barely manage to turn off my inner nerd!
Fav Quotes:
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." --Babe Ruth
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."--Carl E. Sagan
"Individually we are a drop. Together we are an ocean." --Ryunosuke Satoro
"Being a nerd really pays off sometimes." --Ken Jennings
"Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work." --Thomas Edison
You need to know the basics:
Mi familia: I'm a wife and a mom (my most important
jobs)--my husband and I have two boys, a giant black lab and two crazy cats, a bearded dragon (Leonard), a guinea pig (Penny), a flock of chickens, some pigs, and a handful of guinea hens. We love to be outdoors and both of my boys enjoy sports (so do the dog and the husband, actually)... they play basketball, shoot their paintball guns, drive go-carts and four wheelers, and the oldest is addicted to baseball. (And...they are considerably bigger than they appear in the photo to the left.)
Number of Years in Education: 16 --Horseheads MS (1/2), CPP (15)
Degrees:
NYS Advanced Regents (Avoca Central School, 1996)
BA English Literature & Secondary Education (Elmira College, 2000)
MA Curriculum & Instruction (University of Phoenix, 2005)
Fav Music:
~anything at all that my parents listened to (Neil Diamond, Steely Dan, the Beach Boys), ~anything classic (that means 20+ years old)...sometimes classic and big-haired (Aerosmith, AC/DC, Warrant, Tesla), anything with a slight hippie-flare (Dave Matthews Band, Tea Leaf Green, Donna the Buffalo,
Mumford & Sons, Noah & the Whale, The Avett Brothers, the Old 97s) ~basically anything... including Nikki Manaj and Snoop Dogg (should we call him Snoop Lion?), Jay-Z (that's right) and some other crazy selections...
Fav Books:
Orwell's 1984, Walker's The Color Purple, Waller's Overdrive, Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and a gazillion others...Seriously? I'm an English teacher and can barely manage to turn off my inner nerd!
Fav Quotes:
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." --Babe Ruth
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."--Carl E. Sagan
"Individually we are a drop. Together we are an ocean." --Ryunosuke Satoro
"Being a nerd really pays off sometimes." --Ken Jennings
"Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work." --Thomas Edison