BS, Education
M.Ed, Elementary Education


It is imperative in our world today, with all the confusion, that we educate the whole individual…spirit, mind, and body. At St. Mary’s we teach our children to take ownership of their total health. For this reason, my children were third generation graduates of catholic education at St. Mary’s. I graduated from St. Mary’s School in 1982. 

After receiving my Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of North Texas in 1990, I began teaching fourth grade in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. During this time, I went back to school. In 1996 I received my Master of Education degree from the University of North Texas. In 1998 our first child was born, we moved back to West, and my career changed to “stay-at-home mom.” The next ten years were spent with our three daughters. Our youngest entered pre-kindergarten at St. Mary’s in 2007. I was then offered a job to teach religion in 2008. Eight years have passed, and I am still here at St. Mary’s in 2016.  

I know it is cliché to say that I learn more from the students than they learn from me, but I’ve always been taught to strive to be more like them. I will never reach their level, but I will continue to remind myself that it is through these little people there is hope for our future!