I am new to Front Range, but I have already felt the welcoming environment from staff and students. I have always had a passion for teaching and learning, and God has been central in these practices FOR kids. I feel these genuine beliefs and values in all interactions here at FRCS!

• The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell
• Just Like Jesus by Max Lucado
• The Grown Up's Guide to Teenage Humans by Josh Schipp
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• Better Learning through Structured Teaching by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

I absolutely love spending time with my family! My husband, Mike, and I both have all of our extended families here in Colorado, and family gatherings are filled with lots of laughter and love. Mike and I also truly enjoy spending time with each other: yardwork, woodworking, home projects, our adult children, and our Goldendoodle, Chubbs. I also love the Colorado sunshine, so being outside brings me true joy. I generally devour books, especially historical fiction, memoir, and biography genres; books on teaching and learning (instructional practices), leadership, and brain development in kids/young adults.

While I have always considered myself to be coordinated and athletic (I was a collegiate soccer player and longtime runner), I am also fairly well-known for "falling down in public" (first kind of alarming, then completely hilarious). Waving at a friend on my bike in college, then head-over-heels flipping my bike over and over as I was crossing the busiest intersection on the college campus, crowded with onlookers. Once in a college lecture hall (several hundred people), down several stairs. I fell down 5-ish stairs at the Lincoln Memorial in DC, also crowded with people (my family just staring at me, strangers helping me, then my family laughing). I fell (think hilarious slow motion, trying to "collect myself") in front of 50ish school leaders at a conference, then took a bow. I crack up at myself everytime I remember these "public falls." (Watch closely, you may see one someday!)