Hi! Welcome to my web page. I am Meredith, and this is my eleventh year of teaching. I originally conducted my student teaching here at Vantage Point, and came back to teach social studies three years later. I love my job, the students, and Vantage Point's philosophy of learning and teaching.

I grew up in Boston, cheering on the Red Sox, eating lobsters, and waitressing on Cape Cod. I spent four years at a Union College in Schenectady, New York earning a degree in Economics and French, and then received my M. Ed. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. I've lived in Colorado for thirteen years.

Outside of school, I try to attend teacher workshops and spend plenty of time taking dance classes in Boulder. I have spent three of the last four summers in Japan, as well, and I always enjoy spending time with my family out east. I love preparing, eating, and celebrating food -Thai, Japanese, Mexican, and Indian cuisine are some of my favorite palates. I'married and live in Denver with my husband and two dogs.

My objective with students in the social studies classroom is to help them become more active and thoughtful citizens upon graduation. If they can understand complicated historical issues, draw connections between events and government choices, and find similarities and differences between past and present situations, they will be better prepared to be engaged in today's society. In my history classes (modern world history, U.S. history), students learn about history through social, political, and economic lenses. In my contemporary classes (world issues, world geography, modern world affairs), students analyze. about national and international events, how choices in the United States (and in other advanced countries) impact people in other less industrialized countries, and how poverty, inequality, and elements of globalization affect all kinds of people on the hierarchical ladder.

Please feel free to contact me at (720) 972-8356 or e-mail.