I began my teaching career at Bailey Middle School in Austin, Texas in 1995, after graduating from the University of Texas. I later taught two more years in Texas at Country Day School of Arlington. At that point in my life I decided to go back to graduate school and pursue my docorate from the University of Virginia in Educational Research. I did a post-doc at the University of Georgia in the Educational Psychology Department. I then taught in Barrow County, Georgia for 10 years before coming to Oconee County Middle School. Throughout my years of teaching in Texas, Virginia, and Georgia, I have taught most grade levels (kindergarten-graduate school) and most subjects (science, language arts, math, social studies, statistics, and research methodology). However, I think my favorite is 6th grade science because that is the subject and grade I keep coming back too!