Hello and welcome to my educational blog! My name is Sarah Kamala and I live on the island of Maui up on the slopes of our island volcano, Haleakala. I have been teaching K-4th grades here for 8 years, with first grade in the last 4. I am originally from Laguna Beach, California and then moved up to San Francisco where I went to San Francisco State University. I attained my BA in Psychology and my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential. My daughter, now 12 was also born in the Bay Area.

I am most definitely a MAC person but am proficient in both the MAC and the PC. I love my Mac Book and have been known to sleep with it under my pillow! The school that I teach at is a technology focused school. We each have 8-10 Mac computers in our classrooms and school money is spent on technology. We have several mobile labs and smart boards as well as 2 large computer rooms with brand new large screen macs and now we have recently purchased a mobile podcast lab. We have purchased a license for Lexia, which is a computer based reading program. I love to watch kids learn and grow on Lexia. We also use kidpix of course and math whiz. The funny part about math whiz is that they use a UK english accent in the program, which the kids get a kick out of. I co-run the Digital Media Club which is after school. This is our first year and we are learning a lot! We are doing Public Service Announcements and imovies about school subjects like respect and we are filming and making imovies to play on our morning broadcast. I am devoted to learning all I can about technology. I want to be the person people seek out with their technology questions. For now, I am the one who has a lot!

I applied for the Boxley Scholarship here at Peru and I won it! I am SO grateful and feel truly blessed to be going to Peru State College. I am truly enjoying this Masters program and I do not know what I used to do with my spare time. Even thought I will be happy to graduate I am going to miss attending these on-line classes. I plan to see what doors can open for me after attaining my Masters degree. I may want to leave the classroom one day and go into a curriculum specialist role. I would love to hear from others about what they might do with their degree. Of course this degree also helps me jump 2 steps up on the pay scale which is always helpful in this profession.