About The REAL Ms. Frizzle's Niece

Thanks so much for dropping by!  
My choice in moniker has a deep tie to my extended family.  Both of my Grandmothers were in education as well as several aunts and uncles.  Specifically my mother's youngest sister who won the national Ms. Frizzle lookalike contest when I was little and got to spend a year traveling around the country visiting schools as Ms. Frizzle.  Now that Netflix has resurrected the Magic School Bus with Ms. Frizzle's niece taking over her classroom I found it was the perfect moniker to use for myself!
To give you a bit of background on me, I grew up in northern Idaho and received my Bachelors degree and first Masters from Idaho State University (major: Psychology, minor: Biology; Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences specializing in Medicinal Chemistry).  After taking a brief hiatus from my own education to follow my husband to North Carolina so that he could get his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at NC State University, I started teaching in my own Chemistry classroom until we moved to New Mexico so that my husband could start his career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and I went back to school for my second Masters in Chemistry specializing in Educational Chemistry from South Dakota State University.  
For the past 3 years I have been teaching chemistry at the local high school.  When the pandemic first hit in the spring of 2020 I spent the time dreaming up my ideal chemistry classroom and over the last 2 years I have worked to get myself to the point at which I could implement that dream.  With our return to in-person learning this school year, 21/22, I was able to implement my dream classroom with the support of my fellow department instructors and administrators.  This blog will track how I have accomplished Flipping my Chemistry classes and how I have dealt with challenges in that implementation as well as resources I have utilized to accomplish the transition.