All About ME

Hello Parents, Families, & K Friends!

 

Welcome to our class!  My name is Monica Richards.  I am native to East TN

 

Meet my family:

Husband - Randy Richards

3 children/Hunter, Colton, Alston

3 dogs, 8 horses, and a donkey

 

I like:

The outdoors - beach/ocean,

athletic activities, especially soccer & baseball

riding horses, hunting & fishing...

antiques

 

Favorite animals:

horses & wolves

 

Places I want to go:

Montana,Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii 

Fiji

Australia

New Zealand

 

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 work experience:

Popcorn video - sales associate / store mgr

Caddell Construction - administrative assistant

Hampton Inn - general manager

 

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