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About Me

Email:  Gayle@GettingSorted.com

• I am in my last semester of earning my Masters in Educational Technology at Texas A&M.
  

• My internship is with Education for Tomorrow Alliance.
  

• I am in the Texas Alternate Certification process, and have passed the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES), 4th - 8th grade Generalist.
  

• I have 17 years of corporate experience, business training, sales and listening skills.  
  

• My Pre-Engineering degree is from Houston Community College and my BBA in Finance is from University of Houston.   I earned both degrees while attending night school.
  

• I have tutored students at our daughter's Elementary School in Lamar CISD, and was part-time staff.
  

• I have been a PTO Board Member, Yearbook Editor, and Destination Imagination team leader.
  

• I have served 2 years as a Substitute Teacher in Lamar CISD and currently am a  substitute teacher in Conroe ISD.
  

• I have taught Junior Achievement; I am an associate of Texas Jump$tart Coalition.
  

• I have been a Mentor for Big Brothers/Big Sisters for 5 years in Houston and Virginia Beach.
  

• I have led the Children's Board of Education for 2 years at Fishers of Men Lutheran Church, simultaneously serving as Sunday School Co-Superintendent, and was a VBS Co-Director.    I am currently a Sunday School teacher and a multi-year VBS Co-Director at Living Word Lutheran Church; I was recently asked to give my testimony on the stewardship of time.
  

• I keep current with what's happening in educational, business and economic issues.
  

• I have worked with Hurricane Katrina evacuees, and helped transition kids.  I have worked with our local women's and children's shelter, helping with Educational Goals.
  

• I am a member of Kappa Delta Pi and Pi Lambda Theta (International Honor Societies in Education).  I love the 2011 Institute on Learning Differences.
  

• I am the mom of both a special-needs child and a gifted child.
  

• I have many hobbies, one of which is craft kits for kids, but please, don't order anything!
  

• I love adding content to my pages, and I have an eBook in the Kindle/Amazon store and in iTunes.
  

• My Animoto AutoPhotoBiography video.  &  my learning analysis of attempting iOS (proving that I am no programmer)
  

• I am more fun in person than I am in text. 
  

• Here's my LinkedIn.
  

I am a member of the Texas Jump$tart Coalition, which seeks to:

Improve the personal financial literacy of young adults

• Evaluate the financial literacy of our youth
  

• Develop, disseminate and encourage standards for young people
  

• Promote the teaching of personal finance
  

(www.txjumpstart.org)       

                 

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