"I attended the University of Iowa and received a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing in 1998. Later, I attended the University of Phoenix and received my teaching certificate in 1998.I began my teaching career in 1998 at Andersen Junior High School in Chandler where I taught math and held various leadership positions for 10 years. In 2008, I resigned to stay home with my kids. When both kids were back in school in 2013 and were living in a suburb of Chicago, I went back to work as a long term substitute teacher in special needs and then worked with high school special needs students. Since then, I have worked with high school special needs students in Illinois and Ahwatukee. I am excited to be returning to the mathematics classroom this year!