All About ME

Hello Parents, Families, & K Friends!

 

Welcome to our class! I'm Monica Richards, a native of East TN.

 

Meet my family:

Husband - Randy Richards

3 children/Hunter, Colton, Alston

3 dogs, 8 horses, and a donkey

 

Things I enjoy: 

Being outdoors - beach/ocean,

athletic activities, especially soccer & baseball

riding horses, hunting & fishing...

antiques & candles

 

Favorite animals:

horses & wolves

 

Places I would like to see:

Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii 

Fiji, Australia, New Zealand

Greece, Italy

 

Education:

Dobyns-Bennett High School

Tusculum College BA/ Business Management

2003-2005/  Milligan College MEd./ Education w/Early Childhood concentration

2011-2012 / Lincoln Memorial University Ed.S/Supervision and Administration  

2018-2019 / ETSU - minor communication disorders

2020-present / Aspen University Ed.D/K-12 Educational Leadership 

 

Teaching Experience:

2004-2005

Woodland Elementary

K-2 multiage, 1sr grade, 3rd grade 

 

2006-2010

Doak

Kindergarten

 

2010-2012

West Pines

1st grade

2012-2013

Ottway

2nd grade

 

2013-2018

West Pines

1st grade

1st/K math

Kindergarten

 

2018-2019

West Pines/Baileyton/NGHS

Speech Therapy

 

2019-2020

Baileyton/NGHS

Speech Therapy

 

2020-2021

Baileyton  
1st grade / GOAL (Greene Online Academy of Learning)

 

2021-present

Baileyton

Kindergarten

 

Additional experience:

Popcorn video - sales associate & store mgr

Caddell Construction - administrative assistant

Hampton Inn - general manager

GHS - girls soccer coach

 

Goals for the Classroom:

Consist of helping your child develop their academic and life skills, learn to use and follow the guidelines of our system-wide Character Counts program, follow our school and classroom rules (by expecting their personal best), help your child grow as a student, and also to grow as an educator.

 

Sincerely, 

Monica Richards

BES - K