Professional
*Level Up US Teacher of the Year 2017
*Finalist for 2015 McGlothlin Award for Teaching Excellence
*Nominated for TechNite Education award in 2014
*Presenter, Virginia Council of Administrators of Special Education, May 2014
*Presenter, Virginia State Reading Conference, March 2014
*Presenter, Children’s Engineering Conference, February 2014
*Presenter, Virginia Society for Technology in Education Day in Franklin County, July 2013
*Presenter, Virginia Society for Technology in Education, July 2012
*Presenter, North Carolina TIES, March 2010
*Judge, McGlothin Award for Teaching Excellence 2007-2010
*Instructor, Teacher Training Institute, 2008-2011
*Star Educator, Discovery Education 2008-present
*VSTE, member 2005-present
*Finalist for the 2005 McGlothlin Award for Teaching Excellence
*Focus on Education Article in the Salem-Times Dispatch, December 2002
*Nominated by Glenvar Elementary for the 1998 Sallie Mae First Class Teacher Award