This is my first teaching at the Sikeston Fifth and Sixth Grade Center. It is my third teaching for Sikeston R-6. I was previously the choir director at Sikeston Jr. and Sr. High for two years. 

I started my teaching career in Poplar Bluff, MO teaching elementary music. I spent three years there, and then I moved to the Kelly School Distract in Benton where I also taught elementary music for two years. I took the opportunity to move back to my hometown area and taught elementary music in the Ralls County R-II School District  for two years. I was a traveling teacher there and taught at both Center Elementary and New London Elementary . Then I secured a position with the Louisiana R-II School district teaching K-12 vocal music. I taught a part of each day at Louisiana Elementary, Louisiana Middle School, and Louisiana High School. I was also the drama club director for LHS and directed six musicals during my time in that district. 

In May of 2014, I decided to put my degree in counseling to use and accepted a position at Warren E. Hearnes Elementary in Charleston, MO. My daughter and I moved to Sikeston in July of 2014. We have really enjoyed this community and are happy to be a part of the Sikeston school district. 

I live here in Sikeston with my beautiful daughter, Taylor. She is nine years old and will be a fourth grade studentat Lee Hunter this fall. She too enjoys music and theatre. We both weres in the cast of “Big Fish” The Musical” presented by Sikestyon Little Theatre this summer. She is excieted about auditioning for more productions. She is also a dancer at Melissa’s School of Performing Arts.

I have a lot of different activities that I like to do when I am not teaching. Finding time to do them can be a challenge though. My favorite thing to do is spend time with my daughter. Together we enjoy watching movies, shopping, playing games and doing community theater. I have been a member of the board of directors for Sikeston Little Theatre since July of 2019. 

I also enjoy reading and scrapbooking, so I spend a lot of time during the summer months catching up on all the reading and scrapping that I don’t get a chance to do during the school year.