This is my 7th year teaching and all those years have been at Tulare Union High School. I'm a science teacher and this year I'm teaching Chemistry and Earth Science. I also coach softball and this year I'm hoping to get the Varsity head coaching position which I'm very excited about. I've been avoiding the responsibility that comes with the Varsity position for a couple years but after taking these administration classes I'm ready to step up into that leadership position. Somehow I was also elected (might be because I ran unopposed) as our school site CTA rep and will now be going to school advisory (leadership) meetings every other week. Our school has a couple of new things happening this year. We are trying to improve teacher instruction using EDI and Kagan (sp?) strategies. We have a new superintendent and our district motto for the year is to "Get on the Energy Bus" and now advisory is reading the book that was the inspiration for this motto. Tulare Union is very close to hitting that 800 mark and last year the Science department had the biggest gains on test scores for the fourth year running.
Personally... Well I come from a big family and they are the center piece of my life. My brother and sister-in-law had the first baby for my generation and I've spent most of the summer spoiling him and watching him learn to crawl. Here are a couple of pictures of him.
His name is Johnathan Edward, named after both of his grandparents. Both my brother and myself were named after our paternal/maternal grandparents so my brother is keeping that tradition alive.
This school year besides completing my masters degree I have two other goals:
- Limit the amount of TV I watch a day to one hour. (This has been very hard for me so far... but I'm getting so much other stuff done it is well worth it,)
- I'm diabetic, type II, so I'm trying to lower my numbers so I can stop going to the (bad word of choice) doctor!
