TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Youth in Education:

First job: "Babysitter"
Nursery Supervisor
Playful Harmonies Instructor
Individual Student Instruction and Tutoring
Designed and implemented Sponsorships in the Arts & Sciences for Youth.
Designed and implemented service-learning opportunities for youth and adults.
Developed recruitment and educational program promotions for the world's best girls' leadership organization (K-12).
Served with Belleville Public School Districts #118 and #175 serving hundreds of children in districts that indicate poverty rates for students are 3-4 times greater than the poverty rate for St. Clair County.
Addressed achievement gap in elementary education working with community partners and students.
Studied Elementary Education while earning my Associate's Degree.
Studied Education Theory while earning my Master's Degree; including that of Paulo Friere. who believed people aren't vessels to fill up with our knowledge. They are already full of ideas and promise. It is our job as educators to bring out the best in each of them.

Higher Education:

The University of Missouri Saint Louis; McKendree University; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville;
Southwestern Illinois College: Belleville, East Saint Louis, and Granite City:

Business Writing
Writing for Nurses
Rhetoric and Composition I and II
- Smart-Classrooms
- Computer-Assisted Instruction
- Internet Classrooms (100% online learning)

Developmental Writing/ Basic Writing / Adult Literacy
Introduction to Literature (writing intensive)

Introduction to Shakespeare (writing intensive)
Individual Student Instruction and Tutoring

Course Development in Education:

Music and Philanthropy
Wealth and Poverty Service Workshop Women’s Leadership and Philanthropy Workshop SIUE
Not For Profit Service Learning Project (Title III funded): September 2010
KDHX Spotlight on Local Charities/ Service Learning Project (Title III funded)
Pop Technologies as Writing Opportunities: Exploring the Internet in the Composition Classroom
Dylanology in the Writing Classroom
Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom

My Education:
Washington University in St. Louis / Brown School of Social Work
Post Graduate Certificate in Teams and Leadership, 2019

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Master of Arts: Theory of Communication and Composition, Magna Cum Laude, 4.0 GPA, 2002

Pierre Laclede Honors College/University of Missouri at Saint Louis

Bachelor of Arts: English/Literature, Cum Laude, 2000

Belleville Area College

Associate of Arts: Humanities, Phi Theta Kappa, 1997

English Student of the Year Award, 1997 /Outstanding Essay Award, 1996