Welcome to Byrns Darden! Home of the Dolphins. I am a 4th grade self-contained teacher. I come from a family of teachers and it's in my genes. I graduated from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, IL, and have taught in Florida as well. I came to Nashville in 2010 and taught in MNPS for 10 years, then moved to Clarksville in 2019 and started teaching at BDES January of 2020. I love to build unity with our uniqueness' in our classroom. Building relationships, helping each other, and overcoming challenges is why I became a teacher. Experience is the root of all knowledge, and I strive to get my students to try new things, learn their strengths, and accept each other to learn from one another. I am always a message a way to help anyway I can.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn" Benjamin Franklin - I hope my students will feel they are involved and loved every day and to learn from the new, the old, the wins, and the mistakes.