An innovative educator with a decade of experience working with elementary school students. Michelle brings passion and energy to teaching. She is the Elementary Technology Teacher at Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette, Colorado and has worked in Boulder Valley Schools as a TAG Educational Advisor. Michelle's research interests are on using technology to excite, engage, enrich and enhance learning opportunities. In 2007, she founded an online program for gifted students called the Gifted Kids Network. The Gifted Kids Network connected gifted students from rural communities in a safe online community.