Megan’s education includes a bachelor’s degree in recreation (with an emphasis in outdoor education) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She also has a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Colorado.

 

Her experience prior to Foothills Academy included teaching biology, geology, chemistry and outdoor education at schools in Illinois, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. She also spent more than six years teaching history and life and earth sciences at the Cal-Wood Education Center north of Boulder. Before coming to Foothills, she taught third, fourth, and fifth grade at Steele Elementary in Denver.

 

While currently focusing on a strong math curriculum for third and fourth graders at Foothills, her previous background in the sciences and outdoor education provides a strong foundation for enhancing and broadening the direction of learning in those areas as well.

 

“The older I get and the more time I spend with children, I realize that we are all just people in various stages of development—that we are all doing our very best every day to become the best people we can,” says Megan. “I have learned techniques to specifically target different learning styles to pique the interest of many types of learners. I also tend to focus on who the students become rather than what they become. I do my very best to ensure all students are appropriately challenged academically as well as trying to broaden horizons and stretch boundaries to ensure the students are growing emotionally.”