1994 Masters of Education, Grand Valley State University. 1978 Michigan Continuing Teaching Certificate, Michigan State University. 1973 Bachelors of Arts, Michigan State University with a major in English and a minor in journalism. Experience 1974 to present Portland Public Schools. Duties included supervising high school publications, teaching creative writing, classical mythology, speech, ninth grade English, tenth grade English, eleventh grade English.
Current duties involve teaching seventh grade English and eighth grade English.
1992 to 1995, Leadership Committee and Grant Writer, Ionia County Writing Project, Portland, MI 1977 to 1981 Portland Adult Education. Duties included teaching American Literature, Films and Literature, Journalism. Hypertext in the Middle School Language Arts Classroom , for CEP882, a graduate course in education, Michigan State University. Hypertext in the Classroom. On-Line Writing Project, National Council of Teachers of English, Poetry for Two Voices.