About me
Hi, I am Amy Huizenga (Hi-zing-u). I am happy to join you and learn with you at this conference! It is exciting to get to know teachers across Kansas, this is one of my favorite things about my role at Greenbush. On the Greenbush School Improvement Servies team, I have the privilege of being the "Literacy Lady". This allows me to research the Science of Learning and Structured Literacy practices that we must all be more familiar with. Then I have the privilege of working with fabulous educators to impact our students at the classroom level by sharing the things I have learned. My experiences as an educator include over 24 years in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-grade classrooms, as well as full-time mentoring first-year teachers, literacy instructional coaching, and now an administrator at Greenbush supporting school districts regarding instruction, curriculum, assessment, and accreditation. But mostly, I live literacy and love it!