This is my eighteenth year in education. Before coming to MCPS, I taught grades 9-12 in Anchorage, Alaska. After moving to Missoula, I spent three great years at Lewis & Clark Elementary, as both the Families in Transition Coordinator and the director of the Family Resource Center. My true joy is being in the classroom, however, and I have been incredibly fortunate to have spent my last four years teaching 9th and 10th grade English at Sentinel High School. The last few years, I have made the creation of lessons that target learning objectives through the arts and movement my focus. This year, however, I will be embarking on quite a new journey with Missoula Online Academy! I am thankful for the opportunity to see some of you there. I am also very much looking forward to my return to room 111! Once a Spartan, always a Spartan!