Melissa R. from Huntsville, AL

In 1996, I graduated with a degree in early childhood education from Auburn University. I began teaching Kindergarten in the fall of the same year. I taught at a local Elementary school for eight years, and then I was blessed enough to start my own, half-day, kindergarten at First United Methodist Church downtown. I have been there for eleven years. Over the past nineteen years, I have been trained to administer the DIBELS testing and I became a reading initiative teacher. My favorite par