Teacher Qualifications

*College Board Advanced Placement Training

May 1997-2002 Lexington Herald-Leader staff reporter

August 2002-2003 English teacher, Bourbon County High School

June 2003 Bluegrass Writing Project Fellow

August 2003-present English teacher, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

April 2005 *AP Workshop, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; College Board Consultant: Sylvia Sarrett.

May 2005-2008 Bluegrass Writing Project Leadership Board

July 2005 *AP Summer Institute, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY; College Board Consultant: John Williamson.

November 2005 *AP Teaching and Learning Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

December 2006 *College Board. Online Workshop. “Teaching The Things They Carried” in AP English Language and Composition.

November 2006 National Writing Project Conference, Nashville, TN

January 2007 *AP Teaching and Learning Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

July 2007 Bluegrass Writing Project Workshop Presenter, “Incorporating Writing into Your Curriculum”

August 2007-2008 Bluegrass Writing Project Technology Liason and webmaster

July 2008 Bluegrass Writing Project Workshop Presenter, “Writer’s Notebooks in the Classroom”

July 2008 Teaching Journalism in the Classroom, School Media Instruction, Reno, NV

July 2009 EF Educational tour leader, “Rome, The Eternal City”

August 2009 Kentucky Literature Academy with Frank X. Walker, George Ella Lyon, and Gurney Norman, Bluegrass Writing Project