...I am a trained Reading Recovery Specialist. I have spent over 25 years in the classroom (grades 3-9) and five years as an interventionist for grades 4-6 and a Reading Recovery Specialist, supporting the literacy needs of struggling kindergarten, first, and second graders. I have taught in California, Texas, Washington, and overseas. (read more)
...I currently volunteer as a fifth grade math tutor. I have been a nanny for 5 years, and am on the Eastern Reading Council. Ever since I was five years old I have known I wanted to be a teacher. (read more)
...As a certified reading specialist in the state of Arizona, I taught a phonics based reading intervention program. My training included reading education courses, as well as state conferences for ArizonaReads and Dr. Louisa Moats, LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) Institute. (read more)
...Well, you could go out and cut the thistles in the yard. I said I would pay a penny for each one. Our youngest son came in the house an hour later and told me he cut 758. (read more)