Bay Knoll School

I attended Andrews University in Michigan, majoring in elementary education. I graduated with a BS in 1986 and an MAT in 1987, and headed for my first teaching position at the Cape Cod Seventh-Day Adventist School, a single multi-grade classroom. After four years, I started a family and raised my two sons on Cape Cod where they attended the Adventist school. In August of 2008, we moved to Vermont where my boys attended Central Vermont Academy and I taught grades K-8. In 2015, we moved to upstate New York so I could teach at the Bay Knoll SDA Elementary School in Rochester.

My goals as a teacher are to enlighten, inspire, and uplift our young people, and to lead them into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. It is always rewarding to watch my students walk down the aisle upon graduating from the 8 th grade. All the lesson plans, book reports, projects and presentations have been fulfilled and recognized. But to hear them proclaim their commitment and love for our Savior is an accomplishment no grade could ever reflect. As a Christian educator, it is the reward I strive to achieve. It is the reason why I teach.