Meet Candy
Born in Santa Monica, California, I have lived in Santa Barbara for the past 18 years raising my three daughters. As the oldest of four children, I have been playing school since I can remember.
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My idea of a play-time as a child was converting our childhood playhouse into my mock classroom. I was a born teacher; it's in my blood.
I am an active volunteer with my daughters' schools, in and outside of the classroom. As a room parent volunteer for 7 years, working on classroom parties, book fairs, carnivals, and auctions for my girls' schools has enriched my life. Moreover, as a AYSO soccer coach, I have learned that it is never too late to get in the ball game.
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The Storyteller Children Center, where I help fundraise, is near and dear to my heart. They provide high-quality childhood education for homeless and at-risk children.
Education and Experience
MA Pepperdine University - Education
BA University of Colorado, Boulder - Political Science
California Multi-Subject Credential Teacher
CLAD certification
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Experience
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Reading Programs
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Project Read
A systematic approach to teaching decoding and coding and reading comprehension strategies using multi-sensory activities.
Reading Recovery
A program designed to promote literacy learning. Activites in text reading, letter identification, and text writing.
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Explode the Code Phonics
A sequential systematic approach to phonics in which students blend sounds to build vocabulary and read words, phrases, sentences, and stories.
Lindamood Bell (The Lips Program)
Students discover and label the oral-motor movements of phonemes. Emphasis on the feeling of sounds to help aid phonemic awareness.
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Making Words
Innovative, developmental approach to teaching phonics and spelling. Includes effective tools for strengthening spelling and phonics skills.
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Language Experience
Songs, chants, poems, rhyming, problem solving activities that develop vocabulary, familiarize with prints, directionality, and practice predictable and patterned language.
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Cold Springs School, kindergarten teacher
9/02-9/03
Montecito, CA
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Point Dume Marine Science, first grade teacher
9/00-6/02
Malibu, CA
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Hope School, first grade teacher
9/98-6/00, 9/02-6/04
Santa Barbara, CA