Teaching is my passion! This will be my twenty third year teaching at SRTMS and my eighteenth year teaching 7th and 8th grade science. In addition, I previously taught 6th grade math and science for two years, and prior to that I taught first and fifth grade. I received my bachelor's degree in Science from the University of California at Irvine, with a minor in French Literature and obtained my teaching credential from Cal State Northridge. I have a 38-year-old daughter and a 28-year-old son. Outside of school, my hobbies are cooking (and trying new restaurants), working out/yoga, meditation, reading, travel, and writing--who knows, maybe a novel someday?