Kristy+Baker

Greetings and Salutations!

My name is Kristy Baker. I teach in Albuquerque, NM where it is actually raining! Oh wait, it's done now. Bummer. This is my 16th year of teaching in many arenas. I began as a special education teacher in Las Cruces before moving back home and settling in Albuquerque. I taught another year of special education, a year of regular education 3rd grade, and three more years of special education. At that time I decided that I was doing more paperwork than teaching so I decided to take a job for the district as a Technology Resource Teacher. My job for the next 2 years was to teach teachers how to use technology with their students. I had 13 schools to cover and was to meet with teachers when the teachers could meet, which usually meant before or after school. That caused such an odd schedule that the following year when my daughter was starting kindergarten I decided I needed to be back at a school site for the sanity of consistent hours. I was fortunate enough to land at a school who wanted a technology teacher and desperately needed a lab that had more than 15 beige tower computers. Being paid as a full time teacher it was difficult to keep the technology of the school running, and it was odd that after two years of working with teachers so they could use technology with their students to be the person they dropped their students off to when they got a prep period. After six years of being this technology teacher/technician, the district cut funds. I ended up back in the classroom. This is my third year back in the classroom teaching regular education 5th grade. I really enjoy this grade and am happy to say that the district has now decided that each school needs a full time technician. Now I can concentrate on awesome projects and not worry about what works.

As a divorced mom of two incredibly active soccer players, I have mostly late nights (mountain time zone) to get any work done. Thursdays are my worst night as I usually don't get home until around 10:00 PM. My Saturdays are practically non-existent until the end of soccer season, but most other days I'm available after 7:00. My skype account is kbaker214 if you want to pull me up sometime for class chatter. = = =Contributing Members=

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Robbie Dillard=====

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Tannie Braziel=====