Biography 
1st Grade
  2005 
                        

Howdy! My name is Jill Palmer. This is my 2nd year at Helotes Elementary, and my 9th year teaching overall. I love being a bulldog, and can't wait to meet all of my new students this year! I spent my four previous years at Thornton Elementary teaching kindergarten, and three years before that at Powell Elementary teaching 1st and 3rd grade. In graduate school, I got to teach college students too!

I am a Texas girl. I have lived in Houston, Lubbock, and Waco. My family moved to San Antonio in 1984 where I attended Northside schools including Glen Oaks Elementary, Hobby and Rudder Middle School, and Clark High School. I hold a bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and Early Childhood Education from The University of Texas at San Antonio, and a masters in Curriculum and Instruction from Baylor University. Last summer I started working on a doctorate in educational administration from the Texas A&M University extension here in south San Antonio, but I've got several years to go before I'll finish it.

I live with my husband, Marte, and our 2-year-old daughter, Sarah Elaine! She was born on March 11, 2003. We also have two cats, Clara and Clementine, and our black chihuahua, Thor. My hobbies include spending time with our extended family, traveling, gardening, reading, singing, assisting in Sunday School, and this web page. Lots of exciting things have happened to me lately: I visited my two sisters this summer, vacationed in Washington D.C., I celebrated my 6th wedding anniversary, and I found out we're expecting a new baby in February!

Thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy my site and will leave me a message in my guestbook when you're done.


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