Classroom Favorites

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Classes Taught

Ozarks Technical Community College

High School
Creative Writing
​English 12
English 12 Honors
English 11
English 10 
English 9
English 9 Honors
Journalism: Magazine/Newspaper

Middle School
8th grade ELA
7th grade ELA
​Newspaper/Yearbook

Organizations

Click for Writing Center page. Co-director

Click for MSTA's Reading Circle

Presentations

2010-2016
Ad teams 
Commonplace Books
Spoken Word 
Fan Fiction/Twitter
​The Shoes Project 

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STARR Conference
Willard, Ozark, & Nixa teachers present PD for each other!

2014-2016
Write Across the Curriculum
Brain Research/Classroom Design Commonplace Books 

Awards

MSTA Secondary
​Teacher of the Year

Springfield Business Journal's Most Influential Women 2012

Click for article.

Springfield News-Leader

Click for Pokin' Around Springfield News-Leader

Dr. Carpenter

Education

+16 Graduate Hours in English, Missouri Western & Missouri State University

M.A. Education, Lindenwood University 

Teaching Certificate, HS English, Missouri State University 

B.S. Marketing, minor in Management, Missouri State University

Reference Letter

Published Writer

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Blogger for Teaching Tolerance

Click to read blog posts.

Freelance Writer for Springfield Business Journal 2012

Broken Skateboard Museum

Click to read essay on Amazon's Look Inside.

School & Community magazine

Click for one of my articles.

I freelance wrote for MSTA's School & Community from 2011-2016. All are listed on my Curriculum Vitae. 

Editor

I edited this magazine in 2013. I have print issues but this isn't online anymore.