Garden of Knowledge

Coming from a wonderful family of five children and two exceptionally spectacular parents, I graduated from New Bedford Vocational Child Care Department in 1980. From there became a teacher aid in the New Bedford Public Schools, worked at several private pre-schools and then taught pre-school and became a lead teacher at New Bedford Head Start Program where I remained for ten years. I obtained my Associate degree in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College in 1995 and then my Bachelors Degree in Human Development and Early Childhood Education from Lesley College in 1998. My student teaching was completed at the Plymouth Nathaniel Morton Elementary School in a first grade inclusion classroom with Paula Deal. For two years thereafter, I was a substitute teacher for the Plymouth Public Schools in a variety of grades and then became a first grade teacher in the New Bedford Public Schools for two more years.