...During my six-year tenure teaching High School English, I taught both writing and literature courses. Then, after finishing my Master's Degree, I began my career as a librarian working at the elementary level. During my teaching career, I have coached students to become strong, effective, writers, and improve reading comprehension and vocabulary. (read more)
...Since then, I have taught 3rd grade for 2 years. My biggest goal in teaching is to help students foster love and confidence in subject areas that they typically do not like -- and I have had success with that in mathematics. Each year, I have students that exclaim during the first week "I hate math!", and by December, they are mathematicians and leaders in their math groups. (read more)
3 Subjects: includingGrammar,Elementary (K-6th),Elementary Math
...I have played the piano and saxophone for over 24 years and I earned my Bachelor, Master and Doctor degrees in Saxophone Performance from the University of Iowa. As a soloist, I was prized as the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Saxophone Winner in 2013 and advanced to the live round of the presti... (read more)
I'm currently a music major with a violin and chamber music focus at the University of Iowa. I have attended In the Plains summer chamber music festival, Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute, and a collaboration between De Paul School of Music and Dal Niente. I have premiered numerous composers' ... (read more)
8 Subjects: includingPiano,Violin,Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD),Music Theory
...I was lucky enough to be selected as a Pulitzer Center fellow to develop lesson plans utilizing under-reported journalism in 2021 which really helped me supplement and enrich lessons in my AP Human Geography course. I also participated in an AP Summer Institute at Loyola University in 2019 speci... (read more)
9 Subjects: includingWriting,Guitar,World History,American History