I have a multiple subject credential, with supplemental credentials in Art, Social Science, Math, and English, and a Masters degree. In 2004, I wrote my first grant for developing critical thinking skills through art education. Since then I have taught art to the students in my grade level and organized two assemblies per year called “Meet the Masters.” In 2011, previous teammates and I wrote a grant to get one-to-one iPods and I am still finding ways to incorporate our new iPads. In 2013, I started using and showing other teachers the free, highly-engaging EEI Social Science and Science materials. As I have tried new strategies to help my students learn throughout my 20 years of teaching, I now am engaged in practitioner-research in an effort to produce research data and to publish research results that teachers beyond my class can apply.