About Ms. Bellman
Margo Fisher-Bellman is beginning her eighth year teaching, but her first year at Nativity. Previously, she has taught public high school at Tiffin-Columbian High School in Tiffin, OH, Miamisburg High School in Miamisburg, Ohio and Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. For the past three summers, she has co-taught a graduate-level English course at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio on teaching writing. Since the winter of 2005, she has worked for the Ohio Department of Education establishing benchmarks for the Ohio Graduation Writing Test rubric. In 2006, she earned her National Board Certification and has twice been an assesor for National Board. In October of 2007, she presented at the Cedarville Language Arts Conference on the importance of incorporating independent novels into the language arts classroom. In November of the same year, she presented at the National Council of Teachers of English(NCTE) Annual Conference in New York City. This presentation addressed the importance of incorporating Islamic literature into the language arts classroom as a method of teaching tolerance. In 2009, she will present at both the NCTE Annual Conference in Philadelphia and the Ohio Catholic Educators Conference in Cincinnati.
Ms Bellman and her wonderful husband live in Kenwood with their two (HYPER) dogs and one (ANNOYED) cat.
