About Me

This is my first official blog posting. Ironically I have my students blog, but I have yet to jump into posting my thoughts on the web. I am a science teacher in North Carolina at a private boarding school called Asheville School. Before I came here five years ago, I taught at a public high school in Hendersonville North Carolina for four years. I am still amazed that my former principal hired a fresh college graduate from Southern Illinois University, but I am sure glad he did. Being at a boarding school is different than public school for sure, but at the heart of it all is that kids are kids. I am just joining the Learning By Design cohort this summer, and this is my second graduate school course. I chose this program because the skills it taught seemed to be applicable to my work in the classroom. I love working with young adults in the classroom, the dorm, and in the pool as part of the swim team. I try to assure the students in my classes are as active as possible, think carefully about what we are learning about, and see their world in a different way after their work in physics and biology. Working at and living on a boarding school campus makes for a very bust life. My husband and I love living in Asheville, and we are thrilled our daughter (currently 15 months)is growing up here and in the wonderful school community.