JOANNA WEST

Joanna West graduated cum laude from Otterbein College in 2007 with a degree in Early Childhood Education and a Reading Endorsement (K-12). In August of 2007 Joanna began teaching preschool at Fit by Five in Westlake, Ohio. In 2008 she took a teaching position at the Avon Goddard School where she taught Pre-K for two years and worked with children in kindergarten through fifth grade in an after school program. Looking for a new challenge, Joanna left Goddard in May of 2010 and began working toward a Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology. When the opportunity arose to return to her alma mater, Joanna was ecstatic. She is very excited to begin a new school year with the Birchwood family. Miss West is the second Birchwood alum who has returned to the school to teach. She will be a Kindergarten aide for Senora Rodriguez and will be Birchwood’s full-time reading teacher for third and fourth grade.