I am currently a first grade teacher at The Wheatlands Elementary School. I have a bachelor’s degree in business communication from DePaul University, Chicago. After college, I was employed by Marshall Fields and Dayton Hudson in sales and human resource management. After 20 years in the corporate world, I returned to school and received a bachelor’s degree in education from Kennesaw State University, in Kennesaw, Ga. I taught kindergarten and second grade in Cartersville, Ga. Upon returning to Illinois in 2005, I have taught kindergarten and second grade at The Wheatlands. In 2012, I also earned master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Olivet Nazarene University, in Bourbonnais, Ill.