I am a National Board Certified 6th grade teacher at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, California. I earned my BS in Human Development and MA in Education from the University of California at Davis. Prior to teaching, I worked as the Project Evaluator for the National Science Foundation’s Nuclear Age Education Institute and for the California Foreign Language Project. I have 19 years of teaching experience in the Northern California public schools, and have also taught content literacy classes as a part-time instructor at California State University, Chico. My professional interests include early childhood development, adolescent literacy, and content area instruction.