I am passionate about helping learners identify their gaps and areas of growth to guide them to mastery. For my master's study, I had a class of 22 Juniors who took the Pre-ACT. Eleven of the students received a sub-score ranging from 11 to 19. I identified two reading strategies that would most effectively improve my students' reading proficiency. I explicitly taught students the annotation rules for finding the main idea and supporting details. I taught morphology to increase students' vocabulary and their ability to recognize words and their meanings based on root words and affixes. When the students took the ACT in April, they increased their reading scores by 8 points. I believe that once a learner gains higher self-esteem as a reader and scholar, they become internally motivated to continue achieving success in all areas of academics.

I enjoy traveling, hiking at Turkey Mountain, and reading. For the last 5 years, I have been obsessed with Mound building cultures and exploring Native American mounds from the Mississippi mound building culture, approximately 500 AD, as well as mounds from the Neolithic era in Western Europe.