Mrs. Whitehead has been teaching Language Arts 6 at DIS since 2017. She loves helping students become confident readers, writers, and critical thinkers. The best part of teaching sixth grade? Her students keep her laughing, thinking, and feeling young every day.

Her childhood was spent in Lodi, California, where her mornings often began with the shake of crop dusters flying over the grape vineyards that surrounded her farm home. She spent her summers reading in a hammock and enjoying every fruit imaginable from her family’s large orchard. She remembers that the first book to make her cry was Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

Utah has been home for the past 30 years, where she and her husband have raised five children and are now the proud grandparents of 22 active grandchildren. For 44 summers, they have made unforgettable memories houseboating at Lake Powell.

• Bachelor's of Science in English-English Education Emphasis (cum laude)