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Determined never to use my BA in English to become a teacher, I spend nearly a decade in advertising as a writer, producer, account executive and account manager.
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I lose my brother in 1986, leading me to begin questioning my career.
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I ditch my job and backpack around the world for a year deciding what to do with my life. The experience changes me forever. I want to both do something I find meaningful for a career and travel every chance I get. Public education seems like the perfect fit for me.
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I decide to ditch the MFA in Fiction Writing I am working on and become, at long last, a teacher. I settle into teaching English to 7th graders at a large public high school outside of Pittsburgh
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Begin teaching Leadership and Theater in high school
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for 6th, 7th and 8th graders. Although I love the wild ride in middle school, I really love 9th and 10th grade gifted education.
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Commit myself to developing my gifted enrichment studies and staying home with my young children as a single mom
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Spent 2002 - 2009 committed to my kids and my students with lots of adventure sprinkled in
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with the wonderful man who will one day become my husband
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and begin renovating it into a home overlooking the Allegheny River
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with the idea of teaching Leadership Development in a blended learning environment to young women after I retire from public education
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and gain a Brady Bunch of six kids to continue the adventure with
