My teaching career began when I volunteered with AmeriCorps NCCC and worked at a YMCA in Arkansas. Tutoring and working with those young men let me know that I wanted to become a teacher. Over the years I have taught everything from Early Childhood Special Education to High School Government and Civics. North Metro Flex Academy is the school that I have been looking for in my twenty years of teaching as the students are teaching staff are supportive of one another to bring the best out of all of us. I continue to look for how to become a better person and educator through teaching inclusion and cultural awareness. We need to devote the time to understand one another better in order to become a better place for our children, and our children’s children, to live in.