Me

...from Louisiana to Poland to Louisiana to Guam to Germany to Vermont!

I am a from North Louisiana--born and raised. My family all still live in Ruston, Louisiana. I went to LSU in Baton Rouge, where I studied French, art, and political science.

I am a full-time (plus) teacher. I started teaching French and art in Louisiana public schools in 1995. I worked a year in Poland as an English instructor and a voiceover artist for a language materials company, before returning to a Baton Rouge teaching job, teaching high school English and French.

I left Louisiana to work for the US Department of Defense in 2000, moving to Guam, where I taught French and history. I transferred to Germany in 2003 to do curriculum work. I picked up my classroom roots again in Kaiserslautern Middle/Highand Ramstein High Schools in Kaiserslautern, Germany, teaching more French and social studies. I met my husband, Wayne, in Germany when he was stationed in Germany as an active-duty Air Force member. We traveled in and around Europe for nearly 14 years and thoroughly enjoyed our opportunities there.

I was selected as a Teacher of the Year for the entire Department of Defense school system worldwide in 2009, a great honor that took me to the White House, the Pentagon, and all over the States and Europe for speaking engagements and conferences. This is when I began grad school. I completed a Master's of Education in Educational Leadership in 2013 during my enrollment as a doctoral student.

Wayne, our two dogs, two cats, and I moved to Vermont in the summer of 2016 and experienced both a culture shock and a thorough-but-needed change of pace. I earned my Ph.D. in Education with specialization in Instructional and Curriculum Leadership in 2017, while teaching French at Randolph Union High School. In 2019, I changed jobs to teach French in St. Albans to grades 3-8. I also teach online High-School French for the Vermont Virtual Learning Cooperative.

I am still teaching online, in a school, and I also plan to be teaching teachers sometime soon. The pets (and we) are a lot older now and since the pandemic began, I have tried to seize my time and do more art. Now I spend most of my free time gardening on the patio or in my basement (le sous-sol) where I have created an art studio next to our wine collection (la cave). Let's see where it takes me.

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