English Trainer
Doris, who joined LTF five years ago, currently creates lessons, conducts teacher training sessions, and personally mentors LTF-trained teachers at their campuses. She brings 31 years of classroom and instructional experience to LTF and compares her position to “teaching in a hall with the best teachers in the best school.” When asked about her experiences at LTF, Doris replied, “The high energy level and academic rigor is exciting and invigorating, and makes me want to do my best work… I feel that I am helping teachers to become their best, most productive selves, which in turn helps students to reach their own potential.” Her favorite aspect of her role at LTF is mentoring: not only is she aware that mentoring allows her to make the most positive difference through directly working one-on-one with teachers, but it also provides lots of variation and “is never boring!”
Doris’ personal educational philosophy resonates with the LTF mission in “the idea that teachers matter most in any classroom and the idea that students respond well to challenge.” She believes that there are students with great potential that is not being met, and that such a personal loss is a loss to society as well.
Doris holds a BS in Elementary Education with a minor in English and an MA as a reading specialist. She has taught first through eighth grade English, social studies, ESL, dyslexia, TAKS remediation, and Pre-AP/GT in Texas public schools, as well as developmental reading, English, children’s literature, and reading methods for four years at the college level. Additionally, Doris is a Certified Alphabetic Phonics Therapist and was a lead presenter for College Board Institutes for eight years. In 2002, she received the first annual Teaching Excellence Award from the Southwest Bank of Texas and Baytown Sun.