Susan's Here to There Connections

44 Years in the Field! 27 years teaching and 17 years coaching, facilitating and developing instructional products for ELLs, Assessment and Rigor.

All children can learn and deserve the best we can offer. When students are happy and feel accepted they will grow and learn. Our job as teachers is to create an atmosphere of acceptance, excitement , collaboration and challenge. Language is the vehicle to express that learning!

Worked with SBAC in creating their Digital Libraries, Proofreader for Phonetics Program DoorBooks, 10 Years Field Study of Linguistics with Evelyn York, District Art Coordinator and K-8 Written Art Curriculum for New Mexico, Success for All School-Wide Facilitator, Accelerated Reader School-Wide Coach, Title I and Baldridge, Coordinator for Learnia Benchmark Assessments, DIBELS Trainer, Houghton Mifflin Coach and Intervention Specialist, RTI Facilitator, ELA Curriculum Mapping, Lexia Phonics Systems Coordinator, ELL Tutoring for SFA, Reading Mastery Interventions (McGraw Hill), Literacy Coach, TOSA for Research and Development, Creating and Leading for Writing and ELA Assessments, Collaborating with Dr. Karin Hess about Depth of Knowledge (DOK) and the CCSS

Master of Visual Arts and Visual Arts Endorsement Pre-K-8, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Ed.Pre-K-8, M.A. Pre-K-8 Elementary Education, with Reading Specialist Endorsement and Documentary Research Major

I love art, especially portraits of children. Supporting teachers with hard to find and accessible resources is another passion!