| I am pleased to see so many familiar faces this year. I look
forward to working with you once again. As for the new parents, I would like to share a little information
about myself. I attended Catholic schools growing up on the South side of Chicago. I graduated college with
my teaching certificate in 1995. I returned to the Chicago Diocese to begin my teaching career. I had no
idea what I was doing, but I seemed to improve a little each year … as we all do! I went on to graduate school
and received my Masters in Education in 2000. I enjoyed the six years that I spent teaching 3rd grade in Chicago.
In 2001, I decided to move to Texas. I came to All Saints for an interview and this place felt like “home.”
This will be my seventh year at All Saints. There used to be a time when I felt like my job was to teach and
the students are to learn. I’m starting to understand that it is really the other way around. I do teach students
about Math, Reading, Spelling, and the like. However, the students teach me about the things that really matter
as we go through life … remember to tell one joke a day, remember to say a prayer for my pet, remember that it is
okay to cry, and remember to make faces at my friend sitting across the room. It is in learning life lessons from
an eight year old that I love most about this job. It is an honor to spend my days with the people that make a
difference in my life … my students.
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