Education

    My Bachelor of Science teaching degree is in both elementary & special education.  I graduated from Iowa State University and immediately headed for the less humid and overall better climate of Colorado!  After teaching for one year, I began taking graduate classes and earned a Master of Arts degree in special education from University of Northern Colorado.  

Teaching Experience   

The 2024-25 school year will mark my 27th year of teaching...all at the best school in Fort Collins!  I began my career by teaching students with learning disabilities.  For the next three years, I taught students with significant emotional disabilities.  Although I enjoyed teaching students with special needs, I then decided I would like to try teaching general education.  I taught first grade for a year, and I've been teaching second grade since 2003.  I love teaching 2nd grade!

My Family:

My husband, Jesse, is a GIS Cartographer (he creates nautical maps & charts on computers). We have two wonderful sons. Jake is 21 years old and Matthew is 18 years old. Jake is a senior at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. Matthew is a freshman at Colorado Mesa University. As a family, we enjoy playing/watching sports, traveling, reading, doing puzzles, and watching movies.