About the Teacher
Educator, advocate, and believer that every student can reach their full potential.
Technology & Education Are Intertwined
To me, technology and education are intertwined and essential to help foster a love of learning. Although traditional teaching methods such as a Question and Answer style or lecturing have their benefits, I firmly believe that integrating technology will enhance the learning process and make it more relevant to one's everyday life.
Technology allows students to manipulate ideas and abstract information into something they can see.
Exploring digital ways of problem solving allows students time to grasp and comprehend new concepts. Seeing how a formula — the constant of proportionality — graphically changes before your eyes builds a bridge from school academics to real-life applications.
Teaching Philosophy
More than academics — developing the whole student
As a current Special Education seventh grade Math teacher, I believe that as educators we are not only instructing students on academics — we are also encouraging them to explore and reach their full potential as selfless human beings.
Technology bridges unseen gaps and allows everyone to access an equitable education.
Technology is extremely important to the development of students into fully integrated, positively contributing members of society. In my math classroom I regularly employ the use of DESMOS as a technology teaching tool — because it allows students to manipulate and see math concepts in real-time.
I've also noticed that students in integrated co-teaching classrooms experience less of a frustration gap because digital tools allow them to work and explore at their own pace. Students see the connections between a table, a graph, and an equation in real-time — building digital fluency that brings math outside of textbooks and into the 21st century.
Why DESMOS?
DESMOS is a highly interactive exploratory tool that gives students a "minds-on approach" to manipulating math in real-time. It moves students beyond simple formula calculations to conceptual modeling of proportional relationships — digitally.
The online platform allows personalized scaffolded material where students can enter via either high or low ceiling tasks — however, the ceiling for how far they can go is virtually limitless.
Explore DesmosCore Beliefs
The values that guide every lesson
Technology Enhances Learning
Integrating technology makes learning more relevant to everyday life — moving beyond front-loading information toward genuine exploration and discovery.
Equity Through Access
Digital tools bridge unseen gaps and allow every student — regardless of learning style or pace — to access a high-quality, equitable education.
The Whole Student Matters
We are not only instructing students on academics — we are encouraging them to explore and reach their full potential as selfless, contributing human beings.
Real-World Connections
Seeing how a formula changes graphically before your eyes builds a bridge from school academics to real-life applications — making math meaningful.
Exploration Over Memorization
Traditional methods can front-load information without reflection. A minds-on, exploratory approach gives students time to truly grasp and comprehend new concepts.
No Ceiling on Potential
Personalized, scaffolded learning means every student can enter where they are — and the ceiling for how far they can go is virtually limitless.
Want to connect?
Families are always welcome to reach out — partnership between home and school is at the heart of what we do.