Hello!  Although I am NOT a NEW teacher, I have taken on a very exciting NEW ROLE here at Pottstown Middle School.  I am now part of the MTSS Intervention Team!  MTSS stands for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support.  Through this role, I have the distinct pleasure of working with 5^th and 6^th grade CORE students. 

History of my Educational career:

• Graduated from Kutztown University in December of 2003 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Elementary Education.
• Earned a Masters Degree in Elementary Reading and Literacy at Walden University in 2010.

Teaching career:

Taught Kindergarten at Rupert Elementary for the 2004-2005 school year.

From 2005-2007, I was a 4^th grade teacher at Rupert Elementary. 

For the past 8 years, I taught 6^th grade ELA and S.S.

2015- MTSS Reading Intervention Specialist

In my class, the focus is on:

*Morphology- the study of the basic building blocks of meaning in language.

o   These building blocks, called morphemes, are the smallest units of form that bear meaning or have a grammatical function.

*Vocabulary

*The History of our English word