Ms. Susan Holt
Office Hours:
Students may make arrangements to meet with me by email/talking to me and setting an appointment on the calendar. I will be available for extra help during after school tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the dining hall.
Daily Schedule
Period 1 Honors Environmental Science
Period 2 Honors Environmental Science
Period 3 Honors Environmental Science
Period 4 Biology
Period 5 Biology
B Lunch
Period 6 Planning Period
Period 7 Biology
Biology
Classroom Management Daily Lesson Plan
Honors Environmental Science
LAB SAFETY
Students reviewed the rules with the instructor in class and demonstrated mastery by taking a lab safety test to earn a required 100% on the test.
I grew up on a small farm in Clarksville, Tennessee. Although I started college at the University of Tennessee at Martin, I transferred to the local college in my hometown, called Austin Peay State University, in my junior year. While there, I was hired as a student worker to help the Professor of botany (study of plants). My job was to hike around in woods, identifying and collecting plants. After earning my Bachelor's of Science with a major in biology and a minor in agriculture, I worked at Auburn University as a lab technician, setting up the science lab classes. Auburn has a highly respected veterinarian school and I was interested in a research project one of the professors was doing about endophytes (fungus) in grass that was causing horses to abort their fetuses. I volunteered to help and my job was to handle the foals that were successfully born to the mares. This is when I discovered volunteering can often turn into something bigger after one of the foals was given to me. After leaving Auburn, I was accepted into a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Grant program in molecular biology at Vanderbilt University. My Master's of Science degree was completed in 1999 with my published thesis "Efferent Fibers in the Optic Nerve of Bulla gouldiana." From 1997 until 2011, I taught in the Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona. In 2005, I was selected to participate in a BBC sponsored documentary about the cause of the tsunami that happened in December of 2004 and assisted in discovering the uplift of the ocean floor off the Sumatran coast. In 2007, one of the researchers invited me to go out on another research project off the coast of New Jersey to try an experimental sample collection method. In 2014, I started teaching with The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) at Vilseck High School in Bavaria in Germany, moved to Ramstein Airbase in 2019 for three years. In the summer of 2022, I made the decision to move to The Villages to be closer to family.