Education:
Directly out of high school, I attended Bridgewater State College where I earned my Bachelor's Degree and Massachusetts teaching license for grades 1- 6. As a life-long learner, I continued my schooling throughout my career and my next pursuit of learning brought me to the Seacoast Center for Montessori Education in Stratham, New Hampshire. The three-year intensive program resulted in earning my 6-12 Montessori Certification. Following my Montessori training, I attended Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts and earned a Masters of Education (M.Ed.) in Integrative Education. Most recently, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell where I studied in depth about reading theory, research, and practice and earned my Ed.S. Reading Specialist. During the summer of 2014 I became a teaching fellow though the Buzzards Bay Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project.
Family:
In addition to being a teacher, I am the wife of a kind and patient man, mother to two wonderfully adventurous and creative children, and the daughter of fun-loving parents who retired and moved down south where it’s mostly warm year-round. I have a niece in college and nephew who just joined the military. Every week my family and my cousin’s family have dinner together at my aunt and uncle’s house. It’s always loud and busy and it’s usually one of the best meals of the week. Eating some of my favorite foods like tacos, buffalo chicken, homemade Polish foods including pierogi, kapusta, and golumbki, and baked desserts with homemade whipped cream, can make the meal even better!
Hobbies and Interests:
My hobbies include traveling to new places with my family and making photobooks on Snapfish with the hundreds of photos I take on my phone. Some day I would like to visit every state in the U.S.—I have a good start as I’ve been to all of the east coast states plus Hawaii, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, and Texas. (I’ve also been to Canada and Mexico . . . someday I want to leave North America on a trip.) I enjoy reading and writing and do either whenever I get the chance.
I believe that learning to read is one of the most important skills necessary for achievement throughout one’s life. There are three ways to learn: from others, by working things out yourself, or through experience. Experience and thinking things through and working them out on our own are both important and valuable. Yet, these two ways may also be a slow way to learn about the broad topics we often learn about throughout life. Learning from others through reading gives us the advantage of others’ experiences and thinking through and working it out – likely from thousands of people over periods ranging from years to decades to centuries.
I believe that reading opens doors to opportunity and adventure and that reading as a family helps to build life-long readers. Reading is one of those learned skills that is a combination of the three ways we learn—we experience it, we work it out ourselves, and we learn from others. Students all have different experiences with reading that build their ability to read. It is my job to begin with what students know and help to provide new experiences that develop individual reading skills and strategies. It is my job to ensure that all of my students learn to read.
Once one learns to read, one then reads to learn.
Directly out of high school, I attended Bridgewater State College where I earned my Bachelor's Degree and Massachusetts teaching license for grades 1- 6. As a life-long learner, I continued my schooling throughout my career and my next pursuit of learning brought me to the Seacoast Center for Montessori Education in Stratham, New Hampshire. The three-year intensive program resulted in earning my 6-12 Montessori Certification. Following my Montessori training, I attended Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts and earned a Masters of Education (M.Ed.) in Integrative Education. Most recently, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell where I studied in depth about reading theory, research, and practice and earned my Ed.S. Reading Specialist. During the summer of 2014 I became a teaching fellow though the Buzzards Bay Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project.
Family:
In addition to being a teacher, I am the wife of a kind and patient man, mother to two wonderfully adventurous and creative children, and the daughter of fun-loving parents who retired and moved down south where it’s mostly warm year-round. I have a niece in college and nephew who just joined the military. Every week my family and my cousin’s family have dinner together at my aunt and uncle’s house. It’s always loud and busy and it’s usually one of the best meals of the week. Eating some of my favorite foods like tacos, buffalo chicken, homemade Polish foods including pierogi, kapusta, and golumbki, and baked desserts with homemade whipped cream, can make the meal even better!
Hobbies and Interests:
My hobbies include traveling to new places with my family and making photobooks on Snapfish with the hundreds of photos I take on my phone. Some day I would like to visit every state in the U.S.—I have a good start as I’ve been to all of the east coast states plus Hawaii, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, and Texas. (I’ve also been to Canada and Mexico . . . someday I want to leave North America on a trip.) I enjoy reading and writing and do either whenever I get the chance.
I believe that learning to read is one of the most important skills necessary for achievement throughout one’s life. There are three ways to learn: from others, by working things out yourself, or through experience. Experience and thinking things through and working them out on our own are both important and valuable. Yet, these two ways may also be a slow way to learn about the broad topics we often learn about throughout life. Learning from others through reading gives us the advantage of others’ experiences and thinking through and working it out – likely from thousands of people over periods ranging from years to decades to centuries.
I believe that reading opens doors to opportunity and adventure and that reading as a family helps to build life-long readers. Reading is one of those learned skills that is a combination of the three ways we learn—we experience it, we work it out ourselves, and we learn from others. Students all have different experiences with reading that build their ability to read. It is my job to begin with what students know and help to provide new experiences that develop individual reading skills and strategies. It is my job to ensure that all of my students learn to read.
Once one learns to read, one then reads to learn.