- How long have you been teaching at Wellington Landings?
- This is my 18th year teaching, and my 15th at WLMS. I spent my first three years teaching at Christa McAuliffe Middle in Boynton Beach.
Q.What’s your favorite thing about science?
- Science is potentially endless – there’s always something new to investigate, or an older idea to revisit with new technology or more data. It helps me better understand the world, how I fit into it, and how to make it better. I am fascinated by relationships in nature (like organisms in a habitat, symbiotic relationships, how our body systems all work together to make us function). I also like that science is pretty clear with its objectives – it doesn’t care about politics, opinions or popularity. Science just simply asks “What does the data show us?”
Q.When you were a kid what job did you want?
- As a kid, I knew that I wanted to do something in the science field. Ironically, I never wanted to be a teacher. 🙂 I mostly wanted to be a marine biologist or a shark researcher for National Geographic.
Q.When did you decide that you wanted to be a science teacher?
- I went to college here in Florida and earned my degree in Marine Biology. I was working as a biologist at the Science Museum after graduation (before it became Cox Science Center). I liked doing the touch tank demonstrations and was in charge of the Snorkeling Summer Camp for a few years. I started helping out more and more in the education department and eventually became the lead Biology Teacher there. After a couple of years, I knew that I wanted to teach more than just dissections and biology, so I decided to transfer into teaching for the school district.
Q.If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?
- My favorite place to visit (that I’ve already been to) is Australia – specifically Queensland. But as far as a new place to visit, it would be a tie between a Costa Rican Rainforest and an African Safari.
