Lynn Wilson has been teaching 19 years.  She graduated from Slippery Rock State Teacher's College in Pennsylvania, "Yes there is a Slippery Rock", in 1970 with B.S. degrees in Elementary Education and Special Education for the Mentally Retarded.  She began teaching EMR students in a farming community of Sandy Lake, PA where her first classroom was that similar to a "one-room" classroom with 16 students ranging from pre-K to 6th grade; two students who arrived in a horse and buggy and speaking no English.  Lynn then moved to Avon, Ohio where she taught another EMR class.  She soon discovered that most of these students were far from being mentally retarded and she proceeded to go back to school at Ohio State and Bowling Green Universities to become certified in the new area of Learning Disabilities.  After establishing a new Learning Disability classroom in Avon she then moved to Tampa, Florida where she also taught the learning disabled in a pod school.  Then it was back to Ohio,  this time teaching a regular fifth grade classroom in the areas of science, social studies, and math.  It wasn't long til she moved again to the other side of Florida, West Palm Beach.  Here Lynn was given the challenge of teaching Kindergarten.  After one year it was time to move again and this time to Columbia, SC and then again to Murfreesboro, TN.    Teaching was put on hold so that Lynn could spend some precious time with her husband and two girls.  She accepted a teaching position in Mt. Juliet, first at the junior high school, next at Mt. Juliet High School Annex with the ninth graders, and now has settled in at Mt. Juliet High School teaching Special Education in the area of Math, her passion.  Besides teaching Resource Math I and II, the last four years Lynn has also been working with Sterling Seat in "Inclusion Algebra I Classes" where her students have found much  success. 

Mrs. Wilson's philosophy of technology integration is:

"A thorough knowledge and understanding of Math is so critical; it is crucial that students grasp the reality and importance of a working knowledge of Math in their daily lives.  Calculators and computers are great tools for achieving success and for challenging our brains to go beyond the expected boundaries of the curriculum that is being presented.  We are now asking ourselves and others to use more than reason and logic, to step out of the pattern and mold set before us and to ask the question 'what if'.  The integration of technology offers each student a new prospective on his ability to be successful in an academic environment in which he may have previously struggled.  It is very important that every student build a self-confidence and an awareness of their abilities.  Technology is a nonthreatening, nonjudgemental, immediate feedback, and a help tool to education. "

Best Practice Selection Committee  Pat Climer, Supervisor of Instruction  David Harrison, Supervisor of Instruction Judy Monroe, Principal Dr. Cathy Toombs, Assistant Principal Diane Bennett, Technology Coach