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Renee is a participant at the NIU 2011 Summer Literacy Conference this year. She currently teaches 4th grade at St. Mary Immaculate in Plainfield. Over the past 17 years, she has taught third through eighth grades at both public and parochial schools. As a second career teacher, Renee enjoys the creativity and challenges that teaching presents. Renee is a graduate of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa and National-Louis University in Wheaton, IL.

Renee considers herself a writer in process. As a child, she frequently wrote poetry which she hid in the closet, and also wrote to President Nixon about US conservation issues. Today, she utilizes those experiences to motivate her students to write for the world!