>> I went to Auburn.
I've actually been to several different schools in my career.
I went to Auburn.
I went to University of Alabama in Birmingham.
Kennesaw College in Georgia and University of Montevallo, which is also in Birmingham.
I studied education.
My bachelors was in English education, certified to 7th through 12th.
I have a masters in middle school.
I was certified to teach science and language arts and then I have a specialist degree
in curriculum and instruction and a doctorate in educational leadership and most
of my career was taught -- I was teaching middle school 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.
I did have a couple of years where I taught at a private school.
My first year of teaching actually was teaching in a private school and I taught 9th, 10th,
11th and 12th grade English, typing 1 and typing 2.
So I had six different preps that year.
Another year I taught private school I had science, biology,
8th grade physical science and PE.
So [laughter] I've had two years where I would not suggest teaching either one of those types
of years but most of my career was teaching middle grades English.
After 30 years of teaching in the education field,
actually 26 years because I've been doing this
for several years now, it's just kind of evolved.
I worked with some people who I had a company doing what I do now and they were looking
for someone to work with them in the State of Alabama.
This company was based in Mississippi at the time and I went to work
for them working in the State of Alabama.
It came about because of no child left behind, because of that legislation
and that legislation actually required schools that were struggling to bring in experts to come
in and work with them and it opened up a field for people to come in and work with schools.
And so it's been very rewarding for retired teachers to be able to go in and work
with schools that are struggling that are in areas
that can't get teachers sometimes in certain fields.