About Me
My name is Lisa McLeod. I am a single mom to two wonderful daughters, Heather and Jay. My favorite holidays are the Fourth of July and Halloween. I am obsessed with minions! I love to travel (Rome is a favorite) and spend time on Lake George (one day I hope to own a boat!). Reading and cross stitching are my go to activities when I have down time.
I have lived in many different places, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Montana, California, New York and Ireland. Nashville is one of my favorite places on Earth. I spend every Fourth of July here, hanging out with my brother and his family. Watching the fireworks while sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River is something I look forward to all year long. Hearing the explosions, seeing the colors and designs and feeling them reverberate throughout my body uses up all my senses, forcing me to stay in the moment and just be. This is not a feeling that I find very often. OCD runs in my family. I suspect ADHD does as well. I have a hard time sitting still. Movies are a no go for me. I lose track of what is happening on the screen because my mind has wandered to something more interesting. It often wanders to my classroom. I teach algebra to special education students at Glens Falls High School. My certifications include elementary education, special education and mathematics 7 – 12. Teaching algebra to special education students is a wonderful challenge. This I can focus on. I am forever searching for new and better ways to bring algebraic concepts to life for my students. Last year I introduced interactive notebooks. Allowing them to build, touch, flip and move their notes has made algebra a little more tangible and a lot more enjoyable. It was a steep learning curve but by the end of the year I was seeing students reach for their notebooks to answer a question before they came and asked me to answer it for them. SUCCESS! My high school went 1:1 last fall. Every student in grades 7 – 12 was given a Chromebook. As exciting as this is, it has been a huge source of anxiety. How do I incorporate technology into my classroom? How do I use it to enhance learning and not just use it because I can? I continue to struggle with this and find myself falling back into my comfort zone. This is something I need to work on and the reason I entered the MET Program at Boise State. |