Most of my teaching experience is with gifted and talented students in grades 2-4, though I have worked with children of all ages in general education classrooms as well. A few years ago I stopped teaching in order to write nonfiction children's books full time. Gradually over the last couple of years, my career has switched from writing to creating teaching materials here on Teacher Pay Teacher. I love creating teaching products (most recently task cards) and feel just as passionate about my work now as I did when I was teaching. I also love knowing that my products help thousands of teachers and reach tens of thousands of students.
My goal is to create high-quality products that are easy to use and include some element or creative or critical thinking. Many of my products are also aligned to Common Core Standards.
I am currently a Top Ten seller on TpT, both for all time as well as in the weekly lists. I am the all time number one seller for grades 3-5. In addition, I have written over 100 nonfiction books for children for a variety of publishers as well as several teacher resource books.
Yet to be added
Here are some of the other places around the web you can find me:
Minds in Bloom
Facebook
Pinterest
Totally Task Cards
My curly hair icon was inspired by a cartoon I used to draw on student worksheets and parent communications. Here is what I really look like:

English Language Arts, Specialty, Math, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Tools for Common Core