I am an elementary school teacher in my twenty-eighth year of classroom experience. Fourteen of those years were in a second grade classroom, but since then I've been teaching fifth graders. As a second grade teacher, I was awarded a National Council of Teachers of mathematics award and was just this year nominated as my school's representative for Teacher of the Year in my district. I pride myself on building a good rapport with my students on a daily basis. I try to maintain a safe, c
