A little late in coming!  I attended the NBCT Day on the Hill on March 3 with an amazing cohort of Nationally Board Certified Teachers I am working with on problems of practice.  We attended the House Education Committee meeting,…
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This weekend, I had the privilege of attending, helping to facilitate, and presenting the KCTE Annual Conference in Lexington, KY.  We hosted upwards of 200 educators and administrators who value literacy instruction and professional learning.  We got literal chills listening…
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After five snow days and ridiculous weather, I am finally back to school (on a 2 hour delay, but here!). It is nice to be back in my general schedule and routine, but it is going to be a crazy…
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Based on the syllabus and the contact I have already established with Dr. Matthew Constant and a few classmates, I am so excited about LME 537! It seems to be a natural extension of the last one and not a…
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My latest professional endeavor is a virtual collaboration with other National Board Certified Teachers in Kentucky that are looking for leadership opportunities that can affect positive change in the classroom.  We are exploring issues we have with student academic progress,…
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Today at my school, we participated in a real-time lock down evacuation simulation with the St. Matthews Police, Fire, EMS and the Louisville Metro Police.  There was recently a school shooting in our district and we want to be sure…
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For the fourth year in a row, I have been granted $1000 to pay for Keith McGill to come a do A Living Newspaper workshop with my Journalism class.  He will take my students through research on current topics that…
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Along with some of my cross country runners, my husband, assistant coach and I collected $210 and raced in celebration of four Breast Cancer survivors on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at Louisville Slugger Field.  This is the seventh annual team…
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Thanks to Donors Choose for inviting me, one of my students, her mother, and my best friend to VIP access at the Prism Lounge at the KFC Yum! Center.  What a way to kick off the school year!  Katy Perry…
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Through the generosity of a donor, I was able to take 30 students and 3 adults to Actor’s Theatre of Louisville on September 19, 2014 to see Dracula.  Thanks to Donors Choose for making this possible!  We had a pre-show…
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