1. What did you study in college?  Was your plan to enter the school counseling world?

At a young age I knew that I wanted to be a teacher.  While other little girls were playing Barbies, I was playing school.  I was thrilled when my teachers would give me any leftover teaching supplies and workbooks.  My dolls learned a lot!  During my senior year of high school, Beaver Dam School District hired me as a CO-OP student to work with all of the Special Education teachers in the district.  After this work experience I knew that working with students who struggled academically and emotionally was my future career.  I graduated from UW-Oshkosh with a degree in Special Education in 1996.  I did my student teaching at Kaukauna High School and was very blessed when the district hired my following graduation.  I graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 2001 with a Masters Degree in Special Education and continued my studies at Lakeland University earning a Masters Degree in Counseling in 2004.  In 2006 I moved from an EBD/at-risk teacher at Kaukauna High School to School Counselor because I wanted to impact  more students.