Joshua High School Life Skills
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We Foster Learning for Life Long Independence
Class overview
Our students learn about different cultures, current events and conflict resolution from curriculum designed to enhance positive social interaction. Aligned with each of their abilities, each are challenged everyday toward generalization of the skills that promote success, confidence and independence. We strive for improvement each day!
Our students are amazing!! They laugh, love to socialize, work hard, learn, aim to please, and want to be your friend. Learning far more about life from my students than I will ever be able to teach them, I am genuinely transformed. You are invited to visit or work with our amazing students. Your life will be changed forever.
One key to our student success is we provide each student the opportunities to learn skills necessary to conduct life and operate as independently as possible. The skills practiced weekly include kitchen skills that allow them to make their own snacks, all safety skills necessary to keep everyone safe, chore skills to maintain an organized and efficient household, and personal hygiene skills to foster clean environments and healthier bodies and choices.
One thing that has molded me into the person I have become is a strong sense of family. These are the people and fur babies who have shaped me.
About me
This is my 18th year teaching, and I will be starting my 13th year as a Life Skill's teacher. I have 2 sons. My oldest, 25, is a Construction Assistant Superintendent who only specializes in school district new constructions as well as renovations. My youngest son, 21, is finishing up basic study at a local community college in Waco and will begin study at Baylor University for Sports Marketing. I also have a married daughter, 27, who started her first year as a certified Functional Academics teacher within Burleson ISD. I have 2 granddaughters, Berkleigh and Emersyn who are the love of my life. I have 2 Chiweenies named Jax and Nikki and 2 registered miniature dachshunds named Bonnie and Cooper. I also have 1 heavenly Chiweenie puppy who passed away 1/6/23 named Bella. I have been married to Misty, a fourth grade Math teacher at Caddo Elementary, for 15 years, and a wonderful mother in law who lives with us named Pam. My mother, a retired administrator from Southlake Carroll and former educator of more than 30 years, lives in Hurst. We are blest to be geographically close and the time together is always precious.
The very purpose of family is to maintain growth and well-being of its members by providing predictability, structure and safety. The Life Skills classroom is designed to operate just like a family because we are family. All are accepted as they are as we collectively work with one another to assist them to adapt and tolerate a multitude of settings.
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