Professional:

Education:

M.A. in Educational Leadership, Northeastern Illinois University, (Aug. 2008)

M.A. in English: Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric, University of Illinois at Chicago, (Dec. 2002)

B.A. in English, Illinois State University, (May, 1999)

Experience:

Argo Community High School -- 8/05 - present
Moraine Valley Community College -- 8/03 - present
Lake Central High School, St. John, IN -- 8/02 - 6/05
Munster High School, Munster, IN -- Summer 2004
Columbia College Upward Bound -- 6/02 - 8/03
Proviso East High School -- 8/99 - 6/01

Coaching:

Speech Coach -- 8/08 - present
Pole Vault Coach -- 1/06 - 5/09

Professional Development

• Member of National Council of Teachers of English since 1998
• Member of The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
• 8/04 – present: Classics in Context seminars
(5/11 -- Dracula; 4/11 -- "Literary Devices"; 2/11 -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; 5/10 -- As I Lay Dying; 4/10 -- Raisin in the Sun; 1/10 -- Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan Jose Arreola; 5/09 -- Great Gatsby; 2/09 -- Paradise Lost; 1/09 -- Invisible Man; 5/08 -- Journal of the Plague Year; 1/08 -- Women Science Fiction Writers; 8/07 -- King Lear; 5/07 -- Atonement;2/07 - Hamlet;01/07 -- The Iliad; 10/06 - Underdogs; 5/06 - Letters from an American Farmer; 2/06 - Lord Jim; 1/06 - Utopia; 10/05 - Arabian Nights; 09/05 - The Tempest; 5/05 -Things Fall Apart; 3/05 - Jorge Luis Borges; 1/05 - Don Quixote; 10/04 - Beloved; 8/04 - The Winter's Tale)
•4/10 -- Attended Graphic Novels in Education Institute at Northwestern University
•1/10 -- Attended teacher workshop on Comedy of Errors at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•10/09 -- Attended teacher workshop on Richard III at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•5/08 -- Attended teacher workshop on Comedy of Errors at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•1/08 -- Attended two-day seminar / workshop on infusing the classroom with Rigor (How to Use Bloom's Taxonomy to align objectives, instruction, and assessment).
•4/07 -- Attended teacher workshop on Troilus and Cressida at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•1/07 -- Attended teacher workshop on Taming of the Shrew at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•9/06 - Attended teacher workshop on Hamlet at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•6/06 - Attended two-day Summer Institute for Teachers. The topic was War and Journalism.
•1/06 - Attended teacher workshop on Macbeth at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•1/06 - Attended teacher workshop on Much Ado about Nothing at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater
•8/04 – 5/05 The Newberry Teachers’ Consortium Seminars: (9/04 - Shakespeare, 10/04 Fitzgerald, 12/04 - Fairy Lore, 12/04 - Afro-Am Lit)
• 6/04 - 8/04 - Attended seminar on Edith Wharton at the Newberry Library
• 2/03 - 5/03 - Attended seminar on Edgar Allan Poe at the Newberry Library
• 8/02 Completed the Great Books Foundation’s Basic Leader Training Course
• 3/02 - Presented “Teaching at Community Colleges at Opposite Ends of the Economic Spectrum: Truly Diverse Teaching," Conference on College Composition and Communication

Personal:

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