Position: Work Experience Coordinator- Handicapped. License: Work Experience Disadvantage & Work Experience Handicapped,  Mild Moderate Mentally Handicapped & Severe Profound Mentally Handicapped. My work ethic began at an early age working on the family dairy, swine, beef and grain farm located northeast of Rochester, MN. I am an alumnus of John Marshall High School Rochester, MN. I earned my undergraduate degree in Special Education from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, MN. In the summer of 2010 received my MA Education Degree from Concordia University St. Paul with an emphasis in Classroom Instruction. I began my teaching career at Pine Island High, Pine Island, MN as a half-time multi-categorical Special Education resource room teacher and half-time Work Experience Coordinator. I was on staff at Pine Island High for three years. I then transitioned to a position at Intermediate School District #917 as a Developmental Cognitive Delayed middle school center-based teacher for five years. In January of 1994, I joined the staff of Eagan High School, as a Work Experience Handicapped Coordinator. I love my job because of the talented colleagues I get to work with at Eagan High and the entertaining crew of students I teach on my caseload. Inver Grove Heights, MN which neighbors Eagan MN is home. My children are graduates of Simley High School. All were high achievers in the classroom and athletics. My daughter was also active in the band program. Our family lifestyle sport is wrestling and softball & baseball. Each of my kids danced (tap, jazz, ballet) for over 10 years with Short Dance studio. I am a Minnesota Twins fan. I am participating in the Bible study: r12 Living on the Edge (a study of Romans 12) through my church Mt. Bethel where I am actively involved in a leadership role. My leisure hobbies are quilting and the lawn. I maintain 3 sites within the Eagan High School website. Eagan High School Work Experience website Notepads & More... website Tabbert's website My efolio Master of Arts in Education - emphasis Classroom Instruction Concordia University-St. Paul MN A ScreenCast tutorial: Financial Literacy: Endorsing a Check - My final Reflection of class Ci555. Comments are welcome. Instructional Tech nology Research: Working with two coh ort 309 peers, we created a researched based presentation using Google Docs. Our driving question: How do the features of a web based course management system enhance learning and increase communication between the secondary classroom teacher, the student, and the parent? Quotes I like . “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you make the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming .” John Wooden There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end the choice you make makes you. I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13 My Family: Jacob, Rebecca, & Daniel A group photo of my energetic Work Force Foundation I & II students. Some of the quilts I've made. In the spring of 2004 I was introduced formally to quilting. My first quilt project was a 'mystery' quilt. Claire a master quilter in her 80's guided I and 7 friends through the project. Each session Clair would introduce us to a new skill and we had made a twin sized quilt. It was so interesting how 8 of us used the same pattern but because of our personal fabric selection our quilts looked so different & beautiful. We enjoyed the quilting experience and the commitment to gather every other week on Tuesday's for friendship & quilting continues. (Claire is still our teacher) A fun side note about my girlfriends I gather to quilt with, all of our kids g rew up hanging out with each other. Quilt night us mom's do a bit of networking to see what exactly our kids are up to. Since 2004 I have created over 40 quilt projects. Most are given as gifts- Christmas, Anniversary, Birthday, Graduation, Wedding and silent auction. My favo rite parts of quilting are gathering/selecting material, cutting it out and sewing the binding on at the end. Being a Masters of Ed student for two years definitely slowed down my quilt production. For a graduation gift I treated myself to a new machine, Bernina QE440. A sampling of my quilt production.                
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Welcome Polly. An excellent start. I'm thinking I'll have to order a notepad.
More more thing. The Pine Island Cheese Mart has wonderful cheese curds.
Polly, your page already looks so great. Wow! Did you know my husband and I have partial season tickets to the Twins this year? Go Twins!
Polly, I am amazed at the pages you tend to and keep up! I think you have a great mix of professional and personal info on your page. And such a great picture of your family!
Polly you are a teche in teachers clothing.
I think you and Henry should start a tech buisness. Both of you seem to have a clear understanding about everything we need to know for this class.
Beautiful family pic! Your site looks very good as well.
Polly very impressive art in textiles.
Polly, You are a quilting goddess! I'M NOT WORTHY! I'M NOT WORTHY!
Polly,
Please don't be mad at me. I edited your WIKI slightly only to free up a little bit of space because we were hitting the upload limit. I removed your wrestling 788 quilt, re-sized it and put it back albeit a small version.
Polly, those quilts are great!
Your quilts are gorgeous!
Polly,
Your delete has been fixed!