About Me

A little about my background, I graduated from KHS (Rachel Hervey) and married my high school sweetheart, Jason Hooten. We have three amazing sons, Caleb, Adam, and Nathan with two crazy dogs and two cats.

My professional background includes teaching multiple grade levels from elementary to high school, from self-contained, to ELA, to Math, and even a little 8th grade History thrown in for good measure. My undergrad work is from SFA, AXE EM JACKS, while my Master's Degree is in Educational Leadership from Lamar University. I held roles as Department Head, Instructional Coach, ELA Coordinator, and Director of Elementary Instruction in previous districts.

Full scale PBL, small group instruction, instructional technology (techy-nerd), vocabulary acquisition, Gomez and Gomez, SIOP, leading tons of professional development sessions, and even leading adult English Acquisition classes all helped create my "highlight reel."