DePaul University - M.Ed., Bowling Green State University - B.S.
Favorite quote
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela
The Ohio State University - M.A., University of Mary Washington - B.A.
Fun fact
When I studied abroad in undergrad, I volunteered at Torre Argentina Roman Cat Sanctuary which is housed in a Roman temple built in the 2nd century BCE. When I returned to the States, I brought back with me a blind cat named Sottiletta.
The Ohio State University - M.S., University of Massachusetts - Amherst - B.A.
How I #ShapeTheWorld
I try to bring my love of math and science and my passion and excitement for those topics with me into the classroom every day. I hope that even if it may not be a student’s favorite subject that they can see the wonder, joy, and knowledge to be learned in these pursuits.
Mary Baldwin College - M.Ed., Western Governors University - B.A., James Madison University - B.A.
Favorite quote
“Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones – rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.” - Mary Oliver