Athletics
Meet The Coach
I graduated college with a BA in Recreation in 1994 and have been working in the educational field for over 27 years. Throughout my career, I have developed a strong skill set in teaching, leadership, and program management, consistently delivering high-quality results and driving success in my endeavors.
I taught high school for over 24 years, where I focused on fostering academic growth, mentoring students, and creating a supportive learning environment. Additionally, I served as an Athletic Director, organizing all after-school sports and managing a middle school sports program that involved 14 schools. My role included coordinating schedules, promoting teamwork, and ensuring the smooth operation of athletic events.
I began working at OLP last year teaching Physical Education and coaching after-school sports. Our boys' volleyball team won the league in 2024 undefeated and advanced to the playoffs for the first time. I love teaching at OLP and look forward to growing children physically and mentally.
Throughout my professional journey, I have honed my abilities in education and sports management, contributing to the development of students and athletic programs. I am passionate about mentoring young individuals, fostering teamwork, and creating opportunities for growth both on and off the field.
Outside of work, I enjoy bowling with my family and working out which bring balance to my life and fuel my creativity. I am deeply committed to lifelong learning and positively impacting my community.
Literacy
Instruction begins to scaffold to deeper comprehension skills during middle school grades. Students gather, comprehend, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and summarize reading material to write, present, and speak about their reading. Students experience reading more focused selections, mentor texts, multi-media texts, plays, poetry, and novels. Online and in print research is part of every subject. Through reading primary texts and books, thematic units with integrated subject matter help students to read more closely, annotate, find key details and integrate their learning with personal experience. Students compare texts and do more in-depth character and plot study. Direct instruction continues to utilize reading strategies, while students gain deeper understanding in a variety of genres including literature, biographies, informational text, poetry, fantasy, sci-fi, and opinion writing. The text becomes more complex in all subjects and we prepare students for reading across the subjects.
Writing
Writing is taught using the writing process of “Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing”. Areas of concentration are personal and fictional narratives, persuasive essays, opinion letters, memoir, and informational/research reports.Students are expected to write more, publish more in depth narrative, opinion and informational pieces throughout the year. Students also focus on writing essays that demonstrate strong organization, ideas, personal craft and voice,, elaboration, evidence, more complex vocabulary and conventions.
Mathematics
Is taught using the Envisions program that was introduced in the primary grades. Students are encouraged to use their critical thinking skills in approaching word problems, and use strategic tools to solve numerical expressions. Math lessons include study of concepts in place value, operations (with a special focus on multiplication and long division in 4th and 5ht grades)), fractions, interpreting data, algebra readiness, and geometry. Daily review in previous concepts learned contributes to mastery in mathematical fluency.
Science
Instruction provides hands-on activities and exploration to help develop skills of scientific concepts, critical thinking, and vocabulary in areas of physical, life and earth science. Students investigate a variety of topics and learn the steps of the scientific method. They learn to ask questions, make observations, collect data, and formulate hypotheses when conducting experiments.
Social Studies
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Religion
Is integrated throughout the day. Students will engage in various prayer opportunities, and develop a stronger relationship with God through the Rosary, Scripture, and participating in the liturgical seasons of the Church. Knowledge of the signs and symbols of the Sacraments are strengthened, and students will learn how to model their lives after the saints. Furthermore, these grades work together to lead the school in the Living Stations of the Cross during Lent.
