Hello!  Welcome to 8th Grade Honors Language Arts!  

I've been on the ELA team here at Schultz, since 2011.   I am especially excited to be teaching 8th grade this year as we will be exploring a variety of literature genre as well as stretching out our writing wings throughout the year.  I am a firm believer in the power of student choices in both reading and writing.  Approximately 70% of the reading we will do in our class and for homework will be self-selected text; the other 30% being teacher-assigned text.  Many of our writing assignments will be student-chosen also.   One of my main educational goals is to help each student find their "one" book--the book that turns them on to the joys of reading that will last them a lifetime.  Our students are the beneficiaries of a Donor's Choose project that provided a generous set of Flying Lessons and other Stories from the We Need Diverse Books Foundation. 

In addition to teaching 8th grade, I also serve as the NJHS co-sponsor and the ELA Department Chair.

 About me:  I've lived in Waller for  17 years with my husband, a '91 Waller graduate, and our two kids.  Macy is a junior at WHS and Caleb is a fifth grader at Jones Elementary.  I have numerous hobbies including reading, gardening, sewing, blogging about my chickens and singing on our church worship team.