As a Florida State graduate, I have currently been teaching for sixteen years. I hold a masters in Curriculum and Instruction and an endorsement in reading and ESOL. I have had the pleasure of teaching grades sixth through eleventh which I believe helps me to better prepare my middle school students. It is my belief that a teacher must have a special type of gift because in a lifetime they have the ability to touch so many lives. The power to teach, listen, support, understand, thrill, comfort, explain and a multitude of other skills are engulfed all into one and it guides me each day I enter the classroom. I also believe in a partnership between the home and the school so that the success of the child is intensified in the classroom. My expectations for all my students are high and I put forth 100% to ensure that those expectations can be fulfilled. In addition, I am a wife and a devoted mother to a twenty-one  year old daughter and eighteen-year-old son. Each day in my class, students are guaranteed to be engaged in active learning. I am excited about the upcoming 2020-2021 school year at Raa Middle School.