Committed Sardine

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Learning Leader
Location Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Introduction I'm a single mom of two daughters. I am a principal in a magnet school. I received my Doctorate in Learning and Leadership from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. I am a committed sardine!
Interests going to musicals, working out, yoga, going to soccer, football, & basketball games, playing cards, nature walks/hiking, reading, cooking, going to yard sales, meaningful discussions/Socratic Seminars, and spa trips (yes, in my world this is considered a hobby!)
Favorite Movies Up in the Air, Slumdog Millionaire, CRASH, Apocolypto, American Beauty, The Joyluck Club, The Color Purple, Legends of the Fall, The Sixth Sense, Shawshank Redemption, Pay it Forward, Forest Gump, The Village, Stir of Echoes, Dragonfly, The Others, Fried Green Tomatoes, Misery, Dolores Claiborne.
Favorite Music I like a little bit of everything. Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, The Stones, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Sade, Chris Isaak, Snow Patrol, One Republic, Augustana, Bob Seger, Elton John, Modest Mouse, Van Morrison, and The Eagles are some of my favorites. I also like a lot of the older stuff; Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, CCR, Van Morrison, etc.
Favorite Books Finding Fish (Antwone Fisher), A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest Gaines), This Boy's Life (Tobias Wolff) and The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy). However, scholarly books are what I most frequently seek to read during this season of my life. Favorite authors include Fullan, Bennis, Ladson-Billings, Delpit, Haberman, and Kozol.