When given the assignment to teach problem solving skills, she went out and earned a private investigator license! Then she wrote a story and a teaching package that was phenomenal using those new found skills to solve the crime. She is retired now, but one of her best projects came about after she read a short World War II memoir. It was about men who survived three weeks in a life raft after the plane when down. Her students were filled with questions: What happened to those men? Where were they now? How did the experience change their lives? Those questions began a years work as the students first found the survivors, mailed them, and finally spoke with them. It was a story that reached international news services and television! Since then, she has kept in contact with some of them.