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Teacher of the Year for Bethesda Elementary School, 6 years NCFT appointee on the Regional <br />Screening Committee for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship Program, 6 years <br />Technology Committee member, 2 years Secretary Functional Work Group, 2 years Kindergarten <br />Grade Level Chairperson, 3 years School Contact Person for Communications, Dimensions of <br />Learning Staff Development Planning Committee member, Hospitality Committee member, Site - <br />based Management Committee member, Science Committee member, and at Estes Hills /CHCCS 3 <br />years Technology Committee member, 2 years District -Wide Supplement Committee member, 2 <br />years District -wide K -2 Assessment School Representative, 3 years Technology Committee and 2 <br />years Estes Hills PTA Co- President. <br />Masters degree, Regular and Special Education certification, selected as an Outstanding Teacher <br />through NJ Governor's Teacher Recognition Program, led district workshops for special services <br />teachers, an editor for an award - winning school art and literary magazine Through the Classroom <br />Window, author of Being the Best Me, Social Skills Books K -5 for Educational Learning <br />Products, author of A Teacher's Guide to the Novels of Robert Kimmel Smith and A Teacher's <br />Guide to the Novels of Betsy Byars for Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishers, author of "Helping <br />Students Overcome the `Oh, No! I've Got a Report Due!' Syndrome," Channels, Ideas for the <br />Classroom published in The Mailbox, led six week workshop, "Teachers as Writers," evaluator of <br />"Writing to Read" program, evaluator of Children's Television Workshop, presenter at KY CEC <br />State Convention, 2 years District -wide K -2 Assessment School Representative, 2 years <br />representative to Special Services Advisory Committee, and 3 years Writing Lead Teacher at Estes <br />Hills. <br />