This is my 11th year teaching, and my 2nd year at Bosque School. I am thrilled to be working here. I graduated from Linfield College in Oregon with a bachelors degree in Biology. My first job out of college was teaching low and high ropes courses and running the climbing wall at a summer camp. I then moved to NC where my pathway to becoming a teacher began (though I didn't know it at the time). I taught Environmental Education on Bogue Banks which is a Barrier Island off the coast of NC (where Blackbeard the pirate liked to hang). I taught there over a year and a half and then moved to Vermont. I continued doing informal education by training Raptors such as hawks, falcons and owls and presenting flight demonstrations and educational programs to the visitors of our Raptor Center. From there, I moved back to my home state of NM and worked at the zoo with education animals. I also trained Homer the African Crested Porcupine and Savannah the Serval. I realized teaching was my passion and decided to make what I had been doing all along official and went back to UNM to get my Masters of Education in Secondary Science. I absolutely love science and hope to share my enthusiasm and love of learning with my students!
Hobbies: Hiking and Camping , reading, doing crafty stuff, anything outdoors and hanging with my family (especially my hubbie and two kiddos Atticus and Scotland)
Pets: 2 dogs- Calvin (a cute black border collie, lab mutt) and Cypress (a Golden Retriever) a Red Eared Slider Lenny (a female named after the teenage mutant ninja turtle Leonardo).
Favorite Quotes: "All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today" -unknown
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire"- William Butler Yeates