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

•9-12 English teacher
•Summer School Director (2009 - present)
•Chair of AP English Vertical Team (2007- 2013)

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:

Head 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

•1/13 - The Newberry Teachers’ Consortium Seminar on Flim and Literature

•4/12 - The Newberry Teachers’ Consortium Seminar on the History of Boredom

•2/12 - present: attended the following Books Unbound seminars

•3/12 -- Seminar on Fight Club @ DePaul University
•2/12 -- Seminar on Scarlet Letter @ University of Chicago

• 8/04 – 05/11: attended the following Chicago Humanities Festival Classics in Context seminars:

•5/11 - Seminar on Dracula @ Northwestern University
•4/11 - Seminar on Richard Powers' "Literary Devices" @ DePaul University
•2/11 - Seminar on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?@ University of Chicago
•5/10 - Seminar on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying @ Northwestern University
•4/10 - Seminar on Raisin in the Sun @ DePaul University
•1/10 - Seminar on Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan Jose Arreola @
University of Chicago
•5/09 - Seminar on Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby @ Northwestern University
•2/09 - Seminar on Milton's Paradise Lost @ University of Chicago
•1/09 - Seminar on Ellison's Invisible Man @ DePaul University
•5/08 - Seminar on Journal of the Plague Year @ Northwestern University
•1/08 - Seminar on Women Science Fiction Writers @ DePaul University
•8/07 - Seminar on King Lear @ University of Illinois at Chicago
•5/07 - Seminar on Atonement @ Northwestern University
•2/07 - Seminar on Hamlet @ University of Chicago
•1/07 - Seminar on The Iliad @ DePaul University
•10/06 - Seminar on Underdogs @ Chicago Art Institute
•5/06 - Seminar on Letters from an American Farmer @ Northwestern University
•2/06 - Seminar on Lord Jim @ University of Chicago
•1/06 - Seminar on Utopia @ Newberry Library
•10/05 - Seminar on Arabian Nights @ DePaul University
•9/05 - Seminar on The Tempest @ University of Illinois at Chicago
•5/05 - Seminar on Things Fall Apart @ Northwestern University
•3/05 - Seminar on Jorge Luis Borges @ University of Chicago
•1/05 - Seminar on Don Quixote @ Newberry Library
•10/04 -Seminar on Beloved @ DePaul University
•8/04 - Seminar on The Winter's Tale @ University of Illinois at Chicago

•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:

• Click here to watch the Lettiere family on their spring break 2013 vacation.
• Click here to see an old blog that I used to keep up on what I was reading before I was hit with a family.
• Click here to learn about Atypical Hus, a very rare immune disorder that we deal with in the Lettiere household. We have a blog on this site that we update every so often about our experience.