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Additional Information |
| Adjunct Duties |
| Coronet Awards Co-Producer, DEA Union representative, Advisor - Make-A-Wish Foundation Club, Senior Commission & Mock Trial Team. |
| Awards |
| California Retired Teachers Association Scholarship - 2003 |
| Academic Background |
| Alumnus-Fountain Valley High School. B.A. UC San Diego - Literature, emphasis writing, minor-film studies. M.A. in Education, Chapman University, Magna Cum Laude |
| Family |
| My dad is a retired program director for an aerospace engineering company, my mom is a retired middle school Spanish teacher, & my little brother, Darin is a swimming record-holding-alumni of FVHS and a graduate of UC Davis. I have a fish named Hubert. |
| Why did you become a teacher? |
| I had a teacher in high school who genuinely cared about students and what we had to say. This teacher believed in my abilities to accomplish what I wasn't sure was possible. I hope to do the same for my students. |
| Years teaching? |
| This is my 6th year. I student taught at FVHS, went to Westminster HS for a bit, & then came back to the home of the Barons! In the past, I substitute taught for two years in middle school and with pre-school and elementary students with disabilities in Adapted PE. |
| Personal Comments/Quotes |
| "Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Gandhi
“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.” - John Dewey |
| Interests & Hobbies |
| Reading, singing, cooking, karaoke, dancing, & philosophizing. I collect frog anything. I dig Law & Order and love Top Chef. |
| Most memorable moment |
| Waking up early to work the OC Marathon with the dedicated members of Make-A-Wish, Singing karaoke with Ms. Ackermann at AP karaoke night, being dunked in the dunk tank for Edison week, AP 5th & 6th feuds, to name a few. |
