I love all living things. I'm a master gardener, master naturalist, and I want to love whoever God has put in my path. I feel my students' struggles intimately and I don't hesitate to get right in there with them to help.

I studied at Anderson University and IPFW, graduating from the later in 2003 with a bachelor’s in Elementary Education and an accreditation in Middle school Science. In 2006 I studied Emergent Literacy through IU, Bloomington, working towards her Master’s. In summer of 2019, I fulfilled a dream, graduating the Indiana Master Naturalist Program through Purdue County Extention, working with Fox Island and Little River Wetlands to preserve natural habitats and wild life in Fort Wayne.

My teaching resume includes:

• teaching in public elementary school classrooms
• teaching struggling readers through small group intensives
• teaching autism specialized preschool
• private tutoring
• running a homeschool co-op in her home for 5 years
• teaching through Northside Homeschool Co-op
• Teaching ICAN life skills through Purdue County Ext for 4 years
• homeschooling her 3 children ages 16-7

I think my strongest skill in teaching is my ability to adapt to the children’s needs. Having taught a very wide range of abilities and disabilities gives me the experience to differentiate my instruction; reaching children where they are. I have always known that teaching would be my life’s work, and I am so grateful that it has lead me to homeschooling and teaching other homeschoolers.

My greatest joys in life are serving my children and husband. I have lots of hobbies, especially gardening and painting.