Welcome to Spring Virtual Academy

Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome to 3rd grade! I am so excited to start the new school year with your child. It will be a wonderful year of discovery and creativity in order to become independent learners. In 3rd grade we transition from learning to read, to reading to learn. It is an amazing year of growth.

A little about me: I have two children; Jackson will start his Freshman year at ECU, and Miley will start 9th grade this fall. I have been married for 20+ years to my wonderful husband, Craig, and I am active in my church.

I graduated from ECU in 1997 with a degree in Special Education. I taught Middle and High School until 2006, when I became a stay at home mom. Once my kids were both in school, I became a TA here at Brassfield. I earned my Elementary Education licensure in 2014 and started working as a teacher at Brassfield the following fall, and I love it!

My goal is to teach kids to love learning. I will be promoting a growth mindset in our classroom. We will learn that failure is just one way that something doesn’t work, and we will try, try again. We learn from our mistakes and grow! We will speak about our learning in “yet’s”. I have not mastered that, yet!

Your First Assignment:

Parents, please email us. We would like to know about your child before they enter our classroom. What are their likes, dislikes? What activities do they participate in after school? What is your family life like? What things make you proud about your child inside and outside of school? What are your concerns?

Basically, what do we need to know about your child to help them become successful. You have known them much longer than us ;).

This is my fifth year at Brassfield. I am originally from Florida, where I attended Florida State University and received a Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education with a focus on English Speakers of Other Languages (ESL). Over the last fourteen years, I have taught kindergarten, first, third and fifth grades in the states of Florida, Mississippi, Maryland and now North Carolina. While in Maryland, I pursued a Masters of Reading degree at Johns Hopkins University.

My husband’s job with the Boy Scouts of America is what has kept us on the move all these years. But we love Raleigh and hope to stay for a long time. We have a six old daughter, named Katelyn, a one and half year old daughter named Lauren, and our fur baby Akela. In my free time I love to read and travel to see our families in Florida.