I attended Encanto and Clarendon schools (under the name of Linda Sadick) from 1956-1964.  I am currently living in Northern California and have been teaching elementary school since graduation from Arizona State University in 1972.  I credit my third grade teacher at Encanto, Annette Pizer, with inspiring me to become a teacher.  In fact, my very first year of teaching was at Clarendon!  I taught in the multi-level 5^th-6^th grade team with Angie Domini and the late Ann Niewold, who had also been my 6^th grade teacher.  Joe DeWitt was principal when I attended Clarendon, and my 8^th grade teacher, Pete Fisher, was principal when I returned as a staff member.

I married after my first year of teaching at Clarendon and we moved east, as my husband was stationed in the Coast Guard.  My teaching career has been varied and interesting.  I have taught in Arizona, Virginia, Alaska, New Mexico and California.  My experience includes teaching 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th grades as a classroom teacher, K-8 as an emergency resource teacher in Special Education, and for the past 10 years I have been a Title I teacher in a targeted assistance elementary school here in Placerville, CA.  My specialty over the years has become developing ways to teach math to students who just don’t “get it.”  I have written songs and developed step-by-step hand-outs that teach basic operations in whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percents.  These have been presented at seminars in Sacramento and Monterey, CA, and I hope to eventually present them in other states as well.   

Thanks for the opportunity to say hello.  Encanto and Clarendon gave me not only an excellent education but also a life-long love of learning and teaching!

Sincerely, 

Linda Wolfe