This is my fifth year teaching at Powell, and my 29th year of teaching middle school and high school. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and began my teaching career there. I then taught in Austin, Texas for eight years, before moving to Wisconsin and teaching there for one year. From Wisconsin, I moved to the Denver area and I taught Language Arts and Speech for ten years at Euclid Middle School. As we begin this school year, I am very excited to be here at Powell teaching both Language Arts and Social Studies. I am looking forward to another great year.