She received a masters in French from Middlebury and a masters in history from Tufts that led her to teach both French and history at the American School in Paris. After 14 years of public school service teaching, she received the opportunity to teach at UMass Lowell where she taught methods classes in history and French as well as supervising student teaching while getting her doctorate! Pat has extensive PD in local schools in history content (10 years a PI on Teaching American History grants), the Common Core and WIDA.