I am looking forward to an exciting and unique 2020 -2021 school year at Royal Oaks School of the Arts and Cox Mill Elementary with my SOAR and LIFT students. I will be teaching SOAR and LIFT AIG classes at Royal Oaks School of the Arts for 2 days a week and I will teach LIFT AIG classes for 3 days at Cox Mill Elementary when we return to our normal schedule. I am originally from North Carolina, but I have lived in Alabama, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and South Korea during my time in the U.S. Army. This is my nineteenth-year teaching in North Carolina. This will be my fifth year as the Royal Oaks AIG teacher. I taught English Language Arts in the Mandarin Chinese Immersion program at Cox Mill Elementary for one year. I taught for thirteen years as a classroom teacher at W.R. Odell Elementary where I taught kindergarten, second and third grade. I have been married to my husband Mark for 34 years. We have two children and an adorable dachshund. I enjoy running, reading, yoga and traveling.