I am the Talented and Gifted Teacher for the middle school.  I have been teaching full-time at HMS since 2011.  Prior to moving back to Wisconsin, I also taught in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

My undergraduate degree is elementary education/human development.  I also  attended law school and practiced law for fifteen years in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  I returned to teaching when my daughter was in third grade.  I began my tenure at Holmen as a substitute teacher, followed by a temporary position teaching several English as a Second Language students who were just learning English.  My initial full-time position at Holmen Middle School was .5 English as a Second Language and .5 TAG.  Both positions became full-time, and I was transferred to the TAG position, in the 2015 school year.

I have a talented and gifted husband and also a talented and gifted daughter who graduated from Holmen High School in 2015.  She graduated from Marquette University in its Honors Program in 2019 with a double-major in English Literature and History.  She now attends the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in its English Literature Ph.D. program.

Degrees:  Honors BA, Marquette University; JD, Notre Dame Law School

Certifications:  Elementary Certification, gr 1-8; English as a Second Language, Middle Childhood to Early Adolescence; working on gifted education certificate

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."             - Rene Descartes