I am English Teacher with a Master's Degree from Eastern Washington University in English with an Emphasis in Literature and Writing. I am also a published poet and essayist and have a great deal of love for both. As a teacher, I believe that it is my job to facilitate the deepening and interconnecting of the students' ideas with previously established and/or new models of thinking to create an epistemological space where the discursive creation of meaning is possible. Of course, I am also here to help students develop the vocabularies and writing skills necessary to articulate rich and complex ideas.