My Mother (Hi Mom) enjoys an irony of our family's life tremendously.  I have returned to Princeton after being born in another one - that funny little Princeton in New Jersey - as my father was in graduate school.  Our family of six lived in Manhattan, Kansas through the period of the children growing up.  I was always nice to my three sisters and was an enthusiastic (if not particularly skilled) participant in debate, cross-country and basketball.
   
        I moved a few miles down the road to Lawrence to attend the University of Kansas and majored in math, economics and history.  I went to Madison, Wisconsin for graduate school and earned teaching certification there.  I taught in conventional schools in Madison for two years and then in very unconventional schools in Seattle for six.  That time was split between the school in the juvenile detention center, schools aimed at street youth otherwise uninvolved in school, and various re-entry programs.
 
        The opportunity to work with student-athletes at the University of North Texas brought me to Denton and into a program I stayed with for five years.  I became the director of the basketball and football teams' academic support programs and am proud of many of the changes we introduced.  We did not lose a single student-athlete to grades, largely because of the tremendous support of the coaches throughout my tenure and our ability to involve families and other resources as needed.

       I have been at Princeton High School since 2001 and love our community's commitment to our school programs.  I have watched a wonderful new building grow around me, extra-curricular organizations increasingly excel, and a daughter grow.  And yes, Olivia likes math, is beautiful and runs fast.