Welcome to GATE at Kernan Trail Elementary! I am so excited to have your child in my class this year. I grew up in Texas, Ohio and Florida, I spent the majority of my growing up years in Pensacola, Florida and graduated college from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduation, I taught English at a University in China for a year before moving back to Florida and marrying my husband. We lived in North Carolina for seven years before moving to Tennessee for four years. We are so happy to be back in Florida! This will be my 12th year teaching. I have primarily taught third - fifth grades math and science/STEM. I am so excited to teach in the gifted classroom this year. I look forward to getting to know and working with your child this year! I have two daughters, Emma who is almost 10 and Ellie who is 4.