While I enjoy teaching with technology, I expect that I will always desire the human interaction of a real-life classroom. My first teaching position was here in Tampa in 8th grade English. After three years, I moved to Northern Virginia and taught honors and regular levels of English I, II, III and Creative Writing in Fairfax County at both Woodson and Fairfax High Schools, and I contributed to the curriculum for their first online English IV program. I enjoyed serving as faculty sponsor of both schools’ award-winning literary magazines. After seven years in Fairfax County, I returned to Tampa to teach honors and regular level English I and II at Freedom High. In both states, I worked with second language learners, hearing-disabled students, honors, gifted, special needs, and emotionally challenged students in the general education classroom. I team-taught with two different special education teachers in fully inclusive classrooms, and I served as an assistant department chair. During my time in the classroom, I created a hybrid, parallel online learning environment for my students. I always attempted to incorporate technology with the resources that were available at the time.