I am elated to be a new member of the Renner community and will be teaching 6th Grade English Language Arts and Reading! I studied English and Drama at McGill University in Montreal,Canada and have a little over ten years of international teaching and administrative experience, as well as experience running my own theatre company. After moving to the United States, I worked at Southern Methodist University and Dallas Afterschool in early childhood educational research and evaluation and am so looking forward to returning to classroom instruction! I love to use theatre games and performance as a tool to help students bring literary texts to life and have experimented extensively with readers theatre as well. I have lived in four different countries and am blessed with an amazing husband (who is also a writer!) and two beautiful sons, aged 9 and 12. Apart from education, my passions include poetry and drama, fitness, travel and spending quality time with family; I also recently started writing my first children's book! I look forward to soaring into the world of the imagination with my students.