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This is my professional resume. It includes a comprehensive list of trainings delivered, received, certifications, experiences, and more.

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Student Engagement During Direct Instruction

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Student Engagement During Direct Instruction

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I LOVE Whole Brain Teaching! Anyone can teach, but not anyone can engage students so that they LEARN. I believe that the WBT instructional process is essential to develop thorough and deep proof of learning.

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Educators should provide high-quality instruction and FUN for the developmental level of their learners! 

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Educators should provide high-quality instruction and FUN for the developmental level of their learners! 

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Using the "I can do hard things" mindset, I teach my students the call and respond "Hard Work!" ... "Pays off!" I remind them the more they do a hard thing, the easier it gets.

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I have learned about the importance of student ownership, classroom leadership roles, and building a classroom community through the positive conditional reward associated with the PBIS framework of research. 

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Volunteers. Classroom Communities. Newsletters. The possibilities are endless, but transparency is ALWAYS essential. 

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The importance of collaboration between home and school is essential. 

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The importance of collaboration between home and school is essential. 

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I include this letter in my "open house" packet every year. 

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I send home weekly newsletters. The front side is information and important dates, the back side has spelling, math, and assessment information on it for the approaching week. 

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From Kelly Daniel, Assistant Principal at Southside Elementary School 

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From Kristin Giles, Amanda Preece, and Rhonda Smalley 

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Permanent Teaching License

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I have completed trainings on Thinking Maps, and integrate them regularly into lessons. 

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I love to cook in the classroom! When completing our WestVirginia Studies Unit, students made their own pepperoni rolls! 

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I love engaging students through educational technology! In this picture, we used Blooket to review and practice math facts fluency. I also love to use digital portfolios! 

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Field Trips are FUN!!!! I love taking my students our into the world for them to experience it firsthand. 

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After completing our "Alf" unit from Superkids, we created blanket tents un the classroom, made s'mores in the air fryers, and went on a reading adventure by flashlight like our "Little Libraries" text from reading centers did. 

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After completing the Superkids Unit on jokes and riddles, Kindergarten students researched their own jokes at home. They wrote them on a sheet, learned their joke, and delivered them on a homemade stage in our classroom to their peers. We even had a microphone to speak into!

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Matthew hicks and I applied for, and won, the "Voya Unsung Heroes" grant. This allowed us to raise chickens from egg to mature chicks in the classroom and backyard of the school. This link outlines the experience learners had. During COVID, I took the unit into my house and shared our journey over facebook and class dojo so students and their families did not miss out on the experience!

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Hicks' and Meadows' innovative teaching idea, "Who Let the Chickens Out?," focuses on raising and sustaining a small colony of chickens from the start as eggs to the development as hens and roosters. Students involved in the program will learn an appreciation for Appalachian heritage while engaging in a hands-on, real-life experience to learn in a 21 st century environment. The cross-curricular program will address content standards in the subjects of art, music, social studies, science, math, English, and physical education. Leveraging learnings from their research, the students will be provided with chicken eggs which they will then observe as they incubate, hatch, and grow. The students will be involved in a hands-on learning experience, providing an opportunity to learn how to manage multiple tasks at once and working together with their peers throughout the duration of the program. After the eggs hatch, the chickens will be raised accordingly both inside and outside of the classroom.

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Hicks' and Meadows' innovative teaching idea, "Who Let the Chickens Out?," focuses on raising and sustaining a small colony of chickens from the start as eggs to the development as hens and roosters. Students involved in the program will learn an appreciation for Appalachian heritage while engaging in a hands-on, real-life experience to learn in a 21st century environment.

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Reading at the Rock Foundational Literacy Camp

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Reading at the Rock Foundational Literacy Camp

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I have created, directed, and executed the Cabell County Schools Reading at the Rock Foundational Literacy Skills Camp every year since 2019. Each year the camp hosts up to 50 learners entering Kindergarten and 1st Grade to prepare learners for the coming school year! This is the advertisement video that we sent out the first year the camp happened. =)

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In 2016, Matthew Hicks and I were awarded the Fuel Up to Play 60 grant. With this funding, we established an indoor recess space for our school AND The Indian's Cupboard Food Pantry. While the indoor recess space has since dissolved, our food pantry has grown and expanded to a large classroom with a hygiene, household item, and school supplies closet. We also give out free puzzles and games, and work in tandem with Facing Hunger Food Bank and several other community partners to maintain our program. We service over 200 individuals from the Salt Rock Community each year. The photograph in this image is a hyperlink to our facebook page!

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Indian’s Cupboard Food Pantry | Salt Rock WV

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Indian’s Cupboard Food Pantry, Salt Rock, West Virginia. 383 likes. The Indian’s Cupboard Food Pantry is housed at Salt Rock Elementary School. We currently distribut

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Each year, I assist in the coordination and execution of the "Love Your School Food Drive" where Salt Rock Elementary Students compete to see who can collect the most items for The Indian's Cupboard Food Pantry. Each year, we collect over 2,000 specific items for the food pantry! This video is from our Can Wars food drive in 2021. Other themes have included: Love Your School/Valentines, Fanstastic Beasts/ Harry Potter, and Can-O-Saurs (Jurassic Park/Dinosaurs.) The current planned theme for the 2025 is SOUPER Heroes (Marvel.) This school-wide initiative is also a PBL activity as students collaborate to record their results on a school-wide bulletin board graph and the totals are shared on our school social media platforms twice daily to help keep family and communities informed.

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The Salt Rock Elementary Holiday Auction

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The Salt Rock Elementary Holiday Auction

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For 3 years, I have coordinated and executed the Salt Rock Elementary Holiday Auction. Each classroom designs and creates their own student-made holiday-themed items. The first year, we used our STEAM abilities and to create "holidays around the world" trees and lights displays. The 2 years following, we have let the students STEAM creativities run wild and the products our students make are phenomenal!!! This auction raises thousands of dollars for our school annually. This video is a segment of some of our student-made items that were in the auction in 2023.

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I have created the presentation video and assisted in the delivery of the Salt Rock Elementary State of the Schools address for the last 3 years.

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I have participated in the i-Ready Classroom pilot initiative for the past 2 years. I LOVE this program!

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I was selected as a Leader in Learning to serve as the district Kindergarten representative on the Cabell County Schools Elementary Math Textbook Adoption Committee in 2024. I worked closest with Douglass Penn from Explorer Academy to review and critique materials for Kindergarten and 1st Grade for the district.

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Mistakes are proof that you are learning!!!

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Mistakes are proof that you are learning!!!

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I try to use the growth mindset in my classroom as much as possible. One of my classroom catch phrases is "Mistakes are proof that you are learning. The more you make a mistake, the easier it gets."

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I am fully LETRS trained! I was trained directly by Dr. Carol Tolman in the 2nd Cadre hosted by Cabell County Schools.

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5th Grade volume zoo project presentations

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Mention in the October Elementary Education Asst. Superintendent's Newsletter 

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Mention in the October Elementary Education Asst. Superintendent's Newsletter 

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Mrs. Parlier, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Woodrum, and my's classes designed and coordinated this summative project in Fall 2024 and were featured in the Executive Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education's October newsletter for the district!

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WVDE WV Residency Model - Cooperating Teacher Training 2023

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WVDE WV Residency Model - Cooperating Teacher Training 2023

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Double Bubble Map from CKLA Unit 5 Lesson 1 

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Double Bubble Map from CKLA Unit 5 Lesson 1 

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As we read the first 2 texts from Unit 5 Lesson 1 of the CKLA Renaissance Unit, my 5th Graders made a collaborative double bubble map.

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5th Grade Math Field Day Coordinator 2024 - 2025 

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5th Grade Math Field Day Coordinator 2024 - 2025 

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Our team got 3rd place in the county!! I am so proud of them!!!

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Served as a Panelist on the 2025 - 2026 Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars Orientation

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Served as a Panelist on the 2025 - 2026 Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars Orientation

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I received the first staff shout out of the 2025 - 2026 school year in our staff newsletter at VOBE.

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My team/students got a staff shout out for our execution of the school PBIS initiatives. 

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My team/students got a staff shout out for our execution of the school PBIS initiatives. 

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2025 - 2026 GSA Administration Certification

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2025 - 2026 GSA Administration Certification