1. VCU, Master of Teaching - 2014

2.  Foster a love for learning.  Engage students in a variety of purposeful and interactive activities.  Provoke deeper levels of thinking and analytical skills.  Improve writing skills that will translate into real world scenarios.  Provide opportunities for dialogue and to practice communication skills (speaking and listening).  Create a warm, respectful, and structured environment.

3.  “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” - Francis Bacon  “Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.” - Aristotle  “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.“ - Benjamin Franklin

5.  Sound of children laughing  Waves crashing on an empty beach  Traffic  Turn to a partner and share two things you love and one thing you dislike. Next, your partner will share with the class one of the items you chose.

6.  “All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience.” - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe  "I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time." - Lord Nelson  "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature." - Charles Robert Darwin  "Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie

7. I look forward to getting to know you!