She takes the same group of students from first through eighth grade, teaching in a block system. She is bringing her second group through the process and will be in seventh grade with them in the fall. When not figuring out how to add dance, theater, music, literature and art into history and science blocks she is enjoys gardening, raising chickens, international and healthy cooking (ask her about spiralizing!), dancing, acting, singing, and fiber arts (sewing, weaving, spinning, and knitting). While completing her Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies degrees, she spent one summer studying archeology in Israel, and two semesters studying Indonesian culture in Java. After graduating she spent three years teaching English and theater in Japan.