After teaching 5th grade students for six years, two years ago, she began teaching fourth grade reading in a departmentalized program. This year, Kim received her National Board Certification. She has taught inclusion classes for most of her career and has taught many gifted children. Kim has successfully identified several economically disadvantaged students who were gifted but had been previously unidentified by the system. She believes strongly that gifted and talented students deserve the expanded educational horizons gifted education opens for them.