master hunter Labrador Retroevers

master hunter Labrador Retroevers

Breeder of Master hunter Labrador retrievers

Community education in Language arts and visual art

Long-term sub

Currently seeking a classroom; I have been in education since 1991. As a summer job, our family began growing flowers this year (large scale) for the whole-foods co-op.My dream is to find my career in a school that incorporates art integration across curriculum and doesn't close or eliminate a position after a year!

Wheels on trails required me to apply myself in several roles. First of all this was established by the US Forrest Service on a grant to help serve individual with disabilities get out on trails and access nature. I would make calls to area group homes, churches and businesses and recruit those who might like to take advantage of just such an opportunity. In addition, I worked with those who came to our events at places such as Gooseberry Falls and the Lake walk etc. I would give environmentalist talks and use my teaching skills. I also got the children involved and we are now buiding a youth portion into our group!

Tutored K-12th grade students in all subjects. Homeschooled students and also substitute taught. Attended workshops on Indian homeschool liaison training. Attended and participated in all traditional activities such as Pow-Wows, Winter festivals, etc... Created hand-painted cultural cards as thank you gifts and made tobacco ties for participants.

I Took a group of students earning college science credits into the Boundary Waters Canoe area Wilderness for a week-long trip into the wilderness. We set up camp, and I taught them how to fish for walleye, clean and cook the catch. My age and experience lent itself in many ways to the younger generation on this trip. I also taught a day-school class here called "Voyageur Life". This was taught "in character" of a frenchman named "Jaques La Roche" who lived during the 1800's in a Voyageur trading camp. I had to show implements used during the era, explain how they were used, give each individual a name tag and a character to "act out" in the group. We then paddled a vintage style Montreal canoe out to a campsite on Wolf Lake to make a camp-fire, french bisquits and raspberry tea. The idea was to immerse guests in the fur-trade era.

In addition to being elected 6 years to the school board here, I was the department head of English and Art education at this unique alternative charter school created for "at-risk" teenagers in the rural Duluth area. It was an incredible career opportunity for me as I was there from onset to the demise of this school when it closed in 2011. The reason it closed was due to the Department of Education's requirements for basic standardized test scores to be the same requirements across the board for main-stream students, private school, AND charter. We couldn't compete with that. Many of our kids were high attrition, low attendance, free and reduced lunch count kids. I had the unique opportunity here to help build all the curriculum in my department from "ground-zero", including electives: creating a sewing class with 12 sewing machines and an embroidery machine, , a ceramics room with a brand-new computerized kiln and an incredible art and English library. All these things worked together in my classes cross-curricularly. Art integration in general education subject matter was a key to success for our population as it enriches all programs. It was truly a unique and wonderful place for students to come and become immersed in whatever subject they were exposed to. They couldn't help but love learning.