I have been teaching at White Oak Elementary for 26 years. I started out on the primary campus with kindergarten and have promoted all the way through fifth grade where I seem to have stalled for the last 17 years. Now that is quite an accomplishment! The teachers here are my family, and I consider the students here to be my own. It is a wonderful place to live and an even more marvelous place to educate your children.
I guess you could say that White Oak School is in my blood, or Inside
Cranford's Crust. You see I went to school right "here beneath the towering oil wells". In fact, I even wrote the words to the school fight song back in 1971, the year before I graduated a Roughneck.
This February I received a special honor when Texas Computer Education Association named me the 2009 Classroom Teacher of the Year. Credit also goes to my administrators, my excellent teaching team, and my enthusiastic students who are always willing accept a challenge.
This year I will begin a new challenge as the Testing Coordinator for White Oak Intermediate School, and I am hoping things Don't Get Testy! While I will miss being in the classroom all of the time, I still plan to have an instructional impact on the education of our young Roughnecks.
All three of my own children graduated from White Oak High School, and currently three of my seven grandchildren attend White Oak Primary. My "White Oak" family and my own family are very important to me.
When I get a chance, I enjoy spending quality time with my grown children. Just recently I attended a New Kids on The Block concert with my daughters. I remember back 22 years ago when I took them to their first concert ever to see, who else, but . . . NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK.
 I love to travel, and I am especially fond of cruises in the Caribbean. In fact, I just took my daughters on a Caribbean cruise this summer for their 30th birthday. Please take the time to check out our cruise pictures.
Click the ship below.
My husband, Michael, also works in White Oak. He and I have very similar interests and hobbies. We often spend our weekends together doing something that we both enjoy.
 During the fall months, you will definitely find both of us on the deer lease hunting whitetail deer. The love of the outdoors is one of the treasures that my father passed on to me, and I will try to pass it on to my children.
 If you arrive at school early enough, you will probably see me walking into the building with a cup of Starbuck's coffee. It has been said by some that I do love my coffee.I don't know about that, but I do know that I love  !!
All of the teachers here at White Oak love children. Three of the greatest teachers on this campus work very closely with me, and I consider it a privilege to not only have them as co-workers but to have them as best friends.
Mrs. Wilken, Mrs. Cranford, Mrs. Odom, and Mrs. Cole enjoy Crazy Sock Day.
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