Welcome to 3rd grade!

 

 

I am so excited to spend this year with you at Wilkes.  

 

I am thrilled to be back teaching in the classroom in 3rd grade!  I grew up on Bainbridge Island and attended Ordway, Woodward, and Bainbridge High School.   I attended undergrad at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon (Go Bearcats!) and also studied abroad in Galway, Ireland.  After college I moved to Las Vegas to teach.  During my 8 years in Las Vegas I taught both primary and intermediate grades as well as special education.  I earned master's degrees in both curriculum and instruction and special education at UNLV (Go Rebels!). I moved back to beautiful Bainbridge Island in 2013 and taught 4th grade at Blakely before moving to Wilkes as the Differentiation Specialist. 

 

I live on Bainbridge with my husband, Chris, my kids Calvin (3) and Lizzie (1) and our two cats, Frank and Ron.  I love to read, travel, listen to music,  hike, cuddle my kitties, study history, spend time with my family, eat sushi, drink coffee, watch football (Go Hawks!) and of course, TEACH! 

 

I cannot wait to see where the 2019-2020 school year will take us!