Fourth Grade

Years teaching?
32

Why teaching?
My love of kids and my singing career wasn’t working out

Alma Mater?
UNC

Hometown?
New Orleans, LA

Favorite noise?
lawnmower

What’s on your iPod?
R&B and Gospel

Best day of your life?
Getting my first teaching job at Washington Park Elementary

Favorite book?
The Color Purple

Heroine?
Coretta Scott King

Best part of teaching?
Opening the door each morning and watching the future enter my classroom

Favorite board game?
Monopoly

Dream vacation?
Rome

Hometown?
Battle Creek, Michigan

Why Teaching?
I think children are people at their best – innocent, smart, fun, thoughtful, creative, caring.

What’s on your iPod?
Most of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, also the Flobots, Over the Rhine, OK Go, Esperanza Spalding

Biggest risk you’ve taken?
Residency in the neighborhood where I teach! Naw, just kidding. Parenthood, obviously.

Who would you play in a movie?
I would love to play Merlin or Gandalf!

Hobbies?
Drawing

Hidden talent?
I sing tenor in a choir

Hero or Heroine?
Jack Kirby

Favorite moment teaching?
My next writing lesson, I think, is always going to be my favorite

Favorite Sport to play?
Four-square