About mrsdongell

I grew up in a family of teachers and dreamed about it as a child. The teaching profession has been an awesome vehicle to invest into the lives of children across America. I graduated from Asbury College and received my masters from the University of Kentucky. My first 8 years of teaching were in a fifth grade in an inner-city school in Lexington, Ky. I took ten years off to be with my three small children. I accepted a one year maternity leave in a N.C. fourth grade classroom, before moving to San Diego. There I taught 13 years in the sixth (2 yrs) and fourth (11 yrs) grades. My last 9 years have been in a fifth grade in a .midwestern school in Bremen, Indiana. I have learned that children throughout America live in vastly different environments and situations, but they all have the same basic need for someone to love them unconditionally and for someone to believe in them.