Ms. Carrie

Teacher
Spanish, English
​Ms. Carrie’s first job was as a classroom teacher in West Michigan. Her class had both English-only-speaking students and Spanish-only-speaking students. “We used Spanish and English everyday in every school situation to really build a community.” She became a specialist in first and second language acquisition in children.
  • Carrie studied Spanish in high school, then majored in Spanish and speech language pathology at Western Michigan University. 
  • Ms. Carrie is professionally licensed as a teacher of both elementary education (ages 5-11) and Spanish language.
  • She is also a licensed Bilingual Speech & Language Pathologist which means that she is an expert in helping kids develop new language skills.
  • Ms Carrie has been teaching and working with children for more than 25 years.
  • She lived and studied in Denia, Spain and later earned the Premio María Moliner in languages and linguistics. Carrie returned to WMU to complete her master’s degree. 
  • She has taught preschool, elementary school, high school, English as a Second Language, Title 1, and special education. She currently homeschools her sons and works part-time as a bilingual pediatric speech language pathologist at Sparrow Hospital.
​Ms. Carrie has a special interest in assistive technology and she also wishes she was a mermaid: she loves the water! She was on the sailing team in college, and now she sails and paddles all summer long. Ms. Carrie and her husband have 3 sons, 2 dogs, 2 bunnies, 1 lizard, and a cat. In her spare time, Ms. Carrie volunteers at Potter Park Zoo as an educational docent. Her favorite animals at the zoo are the black rhinos, the penguins, and the Massasauga rattlesnake.

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