About Dragonfly Bay

I have been very blessed with the ability of instructing young minds for 14 years.  The majority of my teaching experiences has been teaching at an inner-city school. During that time I was also the lead teacher and a resident educator.  I was also honored to have been nominated as teacher of the year for the district I worked in.

I believe that students learn best in a safe, loving environment. People in interviews would always ask me my teaching style and I would always say the same thing. “It always changes.” As a teacher my students were different from year to year, and I could not approach each class the same way. 

A few examples are that some classes did best in small groups with lots of hands-on-activities, some were better with independent work, and some needed to learn through discovery. Most of the classes I taught had a mixture of these methods along with other ways to reach them. 

One of the first things that was needed was to get to know my students and their learning style. I would then determine what each student might be lacking in knowledge and the skills that were still needed to determine the plan to help them become successful. A plan was then created, and modified as needed.

Knowing my students would also help me develop an academic plan that would fit THEIR needs.  Once I shifted focus to an individualized plan for the year instead of making sure I covered all the curriculum my student growth soared higher than ever.  For many years that I followed this plan my class average was 2 years or more growth and with some students growing more than the average.