Education
My formal education includes degrees in Mathematics and Liberal Studies, magna cum laude, from CSU Channel Islands. Associate degrees in Spanish, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Arts & Humanities were completed at Moorpark College. Previous teaching positions/courses include 9th Grade Math Honors, 9th Grade Math, 8th Grade Math, and 4th Grade.
Before public school teaching, I was a piano teacher for ten years and accompanied middle school choirs.
Teaching Philosophy: 12 x 12 math fact fluency is the foundation for success in middle school and high school mathematics. Memorization of perfect squares to 20 and perfect cubes to 10 augments number sense. Effective math learning includes direct instruction, discovery, PRACTICE, individual, partner and group work, student presentations, manipulatives, technology, art, music and movement. Understanding math is critical to successful entrepreneurship. Finally, Math is beautiful and food for the brain.
Before public school teaching, I was a piano teacher for ten years and accompanied middle school choirs.
Teaching Philosophy: 12 x 12 math fact fluency is the foundation for success in middle school and high school mathematics. Memorization of perfect squares to 20 and perfect cubes to 10 augments number sense. Effective math learning includes direct instruction, discovery, PRACTICE, individual, partner and group work, student presentations, manipulatives, technology, art, music and movement. Understanding math is critical to successful entrepreneurship. Finally, Math is beautiful and food for the brain.
This is my friend and teaching inspiration, Ms. Sharon Sutton.
Family
My husband Tim and I are parents of six children, five sons and a daughter.
Four are college graduates and one is in college. Our youngest is a junior at Thousand Oaks High School.
Four are college graduates and one is in college. Our youngest is a junior at Thousand Oaks High School.
Thanksgiving 2018 -- The whole gang in Newbury Park
New Cooleys! Meet Emma (10/26/19), Zuzu (1/24/19), and Zeke (8/20/19).
One more granddaughter due 12/28/19.
EMMA MICHELLE
ZUZU ZEKE