Introduction

Hello!

Here I would like to introduce myself for future blog readers :) I am now officially an educator, having finished my first year teaching dual language in my own classroom. The year before that, I was a substitute teacher in the north suburbs of Chicago (Glenview and Zion to be exact), working mostly in bilingual elementary school classrooms. I moved to Austin, Texas just over a year ago to join Texas Teaching Fellows, an alternative certification program, to get my teaching certification. Then, being bilingual and all, I was lucky to find a job teaching 1st grade dual language in Round Rock (just north of Austin).

I absolutely love first grade, the Gomez & Gomez Dual Language model, and my school and teammates who have helped me through an intense first year. Now I want to be able to share the work that I have done (and will do!) with the world. I feel that my second year might give me more time to blog (knock on wood) than my first year did, and I also have a lot more resources to share once I have tested them out and/or translated things.

I hope you enjoy my blog, and please feel free to contact me with any questions at all, or just to say hi!
(or if you're a teacher and your class wants to Skype with us! I did that many time's last year and it's a great way to connect/share work/learn new things/etc.)

Thanks!

-Carolyn