Goal focused English Teacher with experience directing students in essay writing and reading comprehension. Delivers exciting, meaningful classroom experiences to engage students. Upbeat attitude and effective communicator when interacting with parents, students, fellow teachers and school administrators.
● North Carolina Teaching Fellow
● Requested Presenter at University of North Carolina-Charlotte Writing Project Fall and Spring Writing Conferences
● Alpha Delta Kappa Iota Chapter President 2006-2008
● Finalist for NCVPS Virtual Teacher of the Year
● Presenter, “Digital Remix: Think Outside the Essay,” NCDPI Digital Learning Conference, July 23-26, 2018
● Presenter, “Drowning to Cruise ship: Cut Your Grading Time in Half!” NCDPI Digital Learning Conference, July 23-26, 2018
● Presenter, “The Struggle Is Real: Supporting student writers in writing groups that work (without losing your mind),” UNC-Charlotte Spring Writing Conference, February 19, 2018
● Presenter, “Digitizing The Genre Study,” NCDPI Digital Learning Conference July 31-August 3, 2017
● Co-Presenter, “Digital Fusion,” NCDPI Digital Learning Conference July 31-August 3, 2017
● Co-Presenter, “Practical Process: Research and Writing Tools for Digital Literacy” UNC-Charlotte Spring Writing Conference, April 27, 2017
● Presenter, “Authentic Student Selected Reading: Making it Happen and Making it Work with Common Core,” UNC-Charlotte Spring Writing Conference, “Effective Reading and Writing Strategies in the Age of the Common Core Standards” April 2012
● Co-Presenter, NCETA Conference From Visual Rhetoric to 3-D Essay-Writing: How Visual Literacy Informs Meaning, Structure, Tone and Audience in Student Writing October 23-25, 2008
● Co- Presenter “Preparing for the 10 grade Writing Test.” Pre-Conference Workshop NCETA Conference, “This I Believe.” October 2007.
● Presenter - Professional Development, “Information Session and Personal Experience with The National Writing Project” Alpha Delta Kappa, Iota Chapter Meeting, June 2007. ● Presenter, “Definition Writing: Interpreting Quotations, Modeling Writing” UNC-Charlotte Fall Writing Conference, “Integrating Reading and Writing.” October 2004.