Karin, a middle school teacher for 11 years, has experience teaching multiple subjects including Language Arts, Reading, History, and Mathematics. She received her Bachelor's in Elementary Education from the University of Maryland, and a Master's in Curriculum and Instruction from McDaniel College. Karin mentors at-risk students while facilitating after-school and Saturday math intervention programs. She is a four-year School Improvement Team member and a member of two vertical math teams, promoting successful student articulation in mathematics from elementary through high school. Her honors include Calvert Middle School's 2002 and 2005 Teacher of the Year as a history and as a math teacher respectively. An honor she holds most dear is the one for which her students secretly selected her in 2002: Calvert County's Wal-Mart Teacher of the Year. In her community, Karin continues to be immersed in children's lives as a basketball coach and volunteer Hands-On-Science teacher.