After graduating from Wheaton College in 1991, I was a substitute teacher and paraprofessional with the Mequon-Thiensville School District for three years. For the next seven years, I made the decision to stay at home with my children, but had opportunities to tutor homebound high school students. In 2001, I returned to the Mequon-Thiensville School District as a kindergarten early childhood paraprofessional. My teaching career began in 2002 when I had the opportunity to teach first grade with the Milwaukee Public School District. I continued my career, for the next two years, with the Mequon-Thiensville School District as a 5K teacher. In 2005, I joined the Grafton School District, and have been teaching 5K at Kennedy since then.