Welcome to 8th Grade ELA!

Hello and welcome to our class website!  I am so excited for the opportunity to work with all of you this year. I started in the district as a substitute teacher, and did French for 1 year, but now I'm teaching what I got licensed for -- English.

I am a transplant from the Detroit area, but I call West De Pere my home. My wife and I have two boys in the district at Westwood, and I enjoy getting involved. I help coach the high school freshmen baseball team, the 8th grade football team, and the Forensics club. You will also find me at a lot of Phantoms events around town.

I'm ecstatic for the opportunity to engage with our 8th grade students in talking about reading and writing. I like to use an emphasis of real world examples, and I try to tie everything into how can the students use these skills later in life.