Personal Information:

• Born in Evansville, Indiana
• Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1977 with a B.S. in Physical Therapy
• Married Paul Kleinknecht in 1979.
• Celebrated the birth of our daughter, Sarah, in 1982.
• Home-schooled Sarah from kindergarten through high school.
• Taught high school math in Germany in 1999-2000 at the Black Forest Academy with Sarah attending her junior year there and Paul traveling back and forth around his farming schedule.
• Enrolled in the University of Southern Indiana in Jan 2001 to pursue a second bachelor's degree in math. Finished the bachelors in math in Dec 2002.
• Began my Master's in Secondary Education/Licensure in Jan 2002, finishing in the summer of 2003.

Educational Goals:   Math and Me
    The Transition-to-Teaching Program has given me the perfect opportunity to take my love of math and transform it into the ability to teach it. I am looking forward to the learning process and eventually being able to take that knowledge and apply it. It will be exciting to sit under different professors and to rub shoulders with many different teachers, especially those in my field. I am anxious to learn all that I can to become an exceptional teacher.