RES K-5 Math Intervention and Math Coach
The 2023 - 2024 school year at Ridgway Elementary marks another wonderful opportunity to work with and support our RES students and teachers mathematically as a Math Interventionist/Math Coach. Mathematically speaking, my 31 years of teaching can be broken down in a fractional manner to best illustrate the years of experience connected to my background. The largest portion of my teaching career, 21 out of 31 years (21/31, .677, 67.7%), had been within the Ridgway School District teaching middle school mathematics, elementary math intervention, elementary physical education, numerous years of coaching, and a number of years as District Assessment Coordinator. Six of my 31 years of teaching (6/31, .193, 19.3%) had consisted of teaching middle school mathematics, self-contained sixth grade, and numerous coaching responsibilities as a member of the wonderful West End School District staff (Naturita Middle School) located in Naturita, Colorado. The remaining 13% (4 out of 31 years) of my teaching experience actually takes me to the beginning marking my first four years of teaching located in the great state of North Dakota. My teaching career began in Dodge, North Dakota at the Dodge Elementary School as a sixth grade self-contained classroom teacher for 2 years. The remainder of this early teaching experience found me teaching self-contained fifth/sixth at Zap Elementary in Zap, North Dakota for two years.