About Me
I love being a teacher and have been teaching in some capacity ever since my freshman year of college nineteen years ago. More officially, this is my twelfth year as a licensed teacher, and I've taught everything from pre-K through 8th grade. This is now my sixth year teaching ELD, five of them with GVA. I taught at GVA-Northglenn for three years and then moved down here to Parker and began teaching at GVA-DC. The GVA model is amazing, and being a teacher here is likewise a wonderful experience. One of the most common questions I am asked when people find out where I work is: "what languages do you speak?" Unfortunately, English is my only fluent language - I only wish I could be a kindergartner in Fang Laoshi's class and learn mandarin! Fortunately, as an ELD teacher, I have learned far more about how my own language works than I ever knew before!
I am also a parent. My wife and I have two kids we adopted from China. One of them is a first grader here at GVA-DC. She has long surpassed me in her Mandarin language ability and now gives me "tests" while we're driving in the car. As my son is only four, I think I may know how to say about as many words in Mandarin as him... there's hope for me, yet!.
If you ever have a question about your child or anything regarding my classes, feel free to contact me through email , or by phone: 720-476-8044 ext. 1023.