Shannon is a personal narrative writer who uses the writing process to digest, discover, and uncover the world around her. She is an American born in the state of Indiana, who grew up mostly in North Carolina, moved to California for college, and raised her family in Oregon. She has worked as an elementary teacher, middle school art teacher, high school drama teacher, principal, or school director in Oregon, Zambia, Hungary, Morocco, Turkey, Kosovo, and The Netherlands. Her first book is titled, “Breaking Free in Zambia—Tales of a Western Woman” is self-published on kindle with Amazon.com. After 30 years in education, she has taken her first sabbatical and is living and writing from the Azores, Portugal. In the last year she has published two professional writings for educational leadership and two opinion articles for the local newspaper in Angra do Heroismo. She is working on her first professional book titled: “ Opening Doors to Professional Collaboration” and is looking for an interested publisher. She is currently working part time as an online writing coach for elementary students and publishes a monthly blog called, “Shannon’sGlobalTales”. She is the founder and CEO of the synchronized global education team, VisionaryEd, LLC.
Breaking Free is a personal memoir that was written during my first teaching position abroad in Zambia. I found the experience so profound that I needed to write; firstly for myself, and then for the loved ones who were curious about my adventure.
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