Who is Ms. Mac?

Teacher, Tutor, Writer, Speaker, Creator of the Midget Digits

Ms. Mac owns and operates a small private learning center in San Angelo, Texas called Horizons Academy. Many of her current and former students have been identified by the public school system as having special learning needs (gifted, attention deficit, learning disadvantaged). Because of the varied abilities of her students, Ms. Mac utilizes accelerated learning techniques and documents the results her students achieve for future research. Ms. Mac’s students have been able to produce very impressive academic results using this approach. Not only have the gifted children performed well above their peer group (generally 2-4 years advanced), she has produced results with the learning disadvantaged and attention deficit students which place them ahead of their peer groups as well. She takes pride in her students’ academic successes and all of her students are proud to say they have Ms. Mac as their teacher.

Above comment by site webmaster and
father of current Horizons Academy student

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Angelo State University 1971
• Graduate Work, Texas Tech University 1973
• Teaching Certification
  Provisional Elementary (Grades 1-8) Biology
  Provisional Elementary (Grades 1-8) General
  Provisional High School Biology, History, Chemistry
  Texas State Board of Education Registered Professional Education Provider #500539

Teaching Experience

• Angelo Catholic School, 1988-1991
• Owner and Director Horizons Academy, San Angelo, TX, 1991-Present
• Private Tutor
  Works with gifted, dyslexic, and learning challenged students
  Workshops and individual instruction to prepare students for SAT tests

Educational Speaker

• 1989-1994 Texas State Speech and Hearing Association
• 1994 Council of Governments, San Angelo, TX
• 1995-2000 Conference of the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching
• 1995-1997 Texas Association for Gifted and Talented
• 2000 Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association
• 2001 Third Annual National Conference on Educating Hispanics
• 2001 Schrieners University

Author

Writer

Community Service

• President Carnegie Library Board, Ballinger, 1984-1987
• Gifted and Talented Task Force, San Angelo, 1998-2000
• Governor Bush's Reading Task Force, San Angelo, 1998
• West Texas Parent Representative-Texas Academy of Math and Science, 1999-2000

Honors