A 5th grade teacher in Middleton, Wisconsin, USA, whose students are her greatest assets, and who continues to challenge herself and her students to be better and do more. The coming year promises to be one filled with even more technology, more honesty, and definitely even more learning. She muses on education on her blog “Blogging through the Fourth Dimension” and is the creator of the Global Read Aloud Project scheduled to happen September 14th, has not won any awards, but has had many interesting conversations.