Education:

Graduated l982, Alvirne High School, Hudson, NH
Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts, Liberal Arts, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont
M.Ed. in Elementary education and English as a Second Language
State Certified in elementary education, ESL, and Secondary English/language Arts

Experience:

Paraprofessional Amherst Street Elementary school 2000-2003
ESL teacher, 21st Century Program, 2002-03
Intern, McLaughlin Middle School, Manchester NH
Teacher, Academy of Learning and Technology 2004-Present

Hobbies and interest:

Spending time with my three children and attending all of their sporting events and extra curricular activities.
Cooking (and eating!) and baking pumpkin maple pie and Portuguese sweet bread from scratch.
Writing
Doing the Sunday crossword puzzle.

Philosophy of Education:

It goes on one at a time,
It starts when you care
To act, it starts when you do
It again after they said no,
It starts when we you say We
And know who you mean, and each
Day you mean one more.
-Marge Piercy, “The Low Road”
I am enthralled with adolescents; the minds of middle school children fascinate me. This is a wonderful and terrible time of life, when children are deciding who they want to be and how they will become. It is an age of paradox when children begin to see the importance of their choices and search for the means to express them. I long to help them discover themselves, to guide them in that discovery, to teach them the interrelatedness of all things, and the language to share their wisdom with the world.

E-mail:

keatingbayrds@nashua.edu