For over 20 years, my career has been devoted to working with students with disabilities. Being a special education teacher has always been my career goal. I am a graduate of Mercer University with a degree in Specific Learning Disabilities. My classroom experience includes teaching students with reading-based and language-based disabilities as well as those with intellectual disabilities, autism, ADHD, and emotional behavior disorders. Beyond the classroom, my advanced degrees in special education leadership have allowed me to coach and support special education classroom teachers to achieve success with their students. Providing specially designed instruction to meet the unique learning needs of students is my passion, and my measure of achievement is teaching students to use strategies to support independence and progress towards their learning tasks and goals. Seeing students set personal goals and supporting their achievement brings me joy. I love teaching all subject areas, especially reading, and I enjoy helping students strengthen their study skills, social skills, presentation skills, and written expression.

I love practicing calligraphy, and I enjoy playing games with my family, reading, exercising, and watching movies.