Introducing Carrie Lane: Four Foot Eleven and Still Growing Strong :)

I am Carrie Lane, a vertically challenged 23-year-old with a love for traveling. I am originally from Glen Cove, New York. I lived there for 18 years and try my best to go back at least once a year. I graduated from Boston University in 2008 as a journalism major with a minor in sociology and coursework in statistics. I spent a semester studying and interning abroad in Sydney, Australia and loved every minute of it. In Australia, I worked as a junior copy editor for 2 health-related magazines. After graduating from Boston University, I moved to Carlsbad, California and worked as a waitress. I decided I wanted to go abroad again, so I applied to teach English for a language immersion camp in France. I worked in France for a few months and then traveled around Europe by myself. My teaching work in France made me want to become a teacher, so I started the prerequisite classes at CSUSM and currently work as a Substitute Instructional Aide for the Vista School District and a server at Joe’s Crab Shack.

My experience with technology is varied. I started as a PC person, but I have recently started using a Mac. I worked in college on creating newspaper layouts for about a year on PC computers and then moved to working with layouts for magazines on Mac computers. Now I own a Mac with Office ‘04 and mostly use it for entertainment and academic purposes.

The part of the College of Education Mission Statement that speaks to me most is its emphasis on educational equity and social justice. As an instructor of E.S.L. in France, I became a huge proponent of bilingual education and programs for English Language Learners. I spent a lot of time developing creative ideas and mechanisms for teaching English while in France and am glad to be involved in a program that has an emphasis on inclusion and multicultural education.