I retired from teaching in 2023. I was a public school teacher in New York State from 1991 to 2023, where I worked in small, rural Adirondack school districts. I hold permanent teaching certifications for French 7-12, Social Studies 7-12, and Elementary (N-6).
Initially, I started blogging as a way to promote my small business. Innovation Assessments has a learning management system that offers a full online teaching platform and the TeachersPayTeachers.com store where I offer products for teaching social studies and French. But as I have been blogging, I have found it a helpful way to transition into retirement. I am leaving a log of my own teaching experiences and what I have done. This is a nice way to end a career doing something I really loved.
I taught middle and high school French for fourteen years, then switched to teaching social studies in 2004. My teaching experience also includes other related subjects and computer courses elementary through college level. I have taught French as an adjunct in the high school for SUNY Albany and college level computer classes as an adjunct in the high school for North Country Community College.
Since the early 1990s, I have had an interest in computers and computer programming. I was a certified computer network technician for six years (CompTIA Network+ Certified) and I served as computer technician and technology coordinator in two districts in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Innovation Assessments has had a number of incarnations since its inception as FrenchRegents.com in the late 1990s. It has also been MultiLinguae.com, JonesHistory.net, TeachersWebHost.com, and finally register as the sole proprietorship, Innovation Assessments.