Arkansas City

This is my fifth year with USD 470 as C-4 Elementary Principal.  

I have been in education for 27 years.  

I began teaching for REACH Preschool Developmental Center in the Fall of 1992 right after graduating from Emporia State University.  I worked as a Family Services Coordinator for that organization for 7 years, providing home based services for infants and toddlers who were diagnosed with delays in their development.   

I signed on with Cowley County Special Services Cooperative in the the Fall of 1999.  I worked at Lowell Elementary as an Interrelated Classroom Teacher (K-5) for 5 1/2 years.  In January of 2004 I had the opportunity to begin a Early Childhood Special Education classroom within the Winfield School District.  I taught ECSE from that point until last Spring.  

The first 1.5 years of my ECSE experinece was spent at Imaging PALS which was located downtown Winfield. From there, I moved to Webster Early Learning Center.  When Webster re-organized a few years in, I became the teacher of the three-year classes.  In 2008, I began pursuing my degree in School Leadership and after graduating with my Master's degree began as the Site Administrator and three-year teacher at Webster.  I continued in that position for six years until resigning to become the principal at C-4 Elementary.