Hello and Welcome to Tabor City Elementary School. I am very happy to be a member of this wonderful community.

Teaching is absolutely in my blood. My mother was a professor at the University of Maryland. She earned her PhD the same year I was born. I grew up on the University of Maryland Campus. I spent many years pretending I was a teacher. I gathered all of my stuffed animals together and taught lessons on my easel style chalkboard. I also assigned them grades in the gradebooks my mother would give me.

My philosophy on teaching is based on the adage, "If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he eats for life." I believe that if I truly teach my students to be learners and engaged in the learning process, they will become learners for life,