- B.A., Sacred Heart College
- M.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Coordinate Student Teacher Training each semester
- Prepare student teachers’ licensure information to be sent to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
- Prepare students for the North Carolina licensure exams
- 1994 – 2005 Title I Programs Coordinator
Gaston County Schools, Gastonia, North Carolina - Monitored reading specialists in fourteen Title I Schools
- Conducted audits to ensure Title I records met federal guidelines
- Organized and conducted workshops for reading and literacy teachers in the Title I schools
- Monitored Title I literacy teachers
- Compiled handbook for reading teachers and literacy teachers
- Evaluated all Title I programs using test data
- Assisted Title I principals in writing Title I projects required by the state
- Past Chair of the Board of Directors, Gaston Literacy Council
- Received the Gaston Literacy Council’s Phil Ritter Leadership Award for 2016
- Member of the International Reading Association
- Kiser Elementary Teacher of the Year 1993
- Presenter at North Carolina Science Teachers’ Association
- Committee member of Girls Leading Girls in Science