In order to personalize learning, you really have to think about what this child need and every child needs love and compassion and encouragement. I let them know that it's totally okay to do whatever they need to do to continue to move forward because you can't stop until you're proud.

Spring Lake Park is known for its innovation and student centered focus. I want to challenge my students to look outside the box and rely on their own skills, imagination and problem solving skills to create solutions to the problems set before them.

I love having students who maybe thought they would never go to college. Guess what, you're a junior in high school and you have already completed college coursework and sometimes for them, that's a real eye-opener and they realize maybe I should start looking into some opportunities for my future that I never thought that I would do.

SLP has given me many opportunities to explore the things that I wanted to learn more about as well as has provided a caring and progressive environment for me to learn in.

I was really burnt out at traditional school and nothing interested me, but at Lighthouse I'm allowed to look into things that make me passionate and it brought back my interest in learning things.