• Teacher of Teachers Award for the Tri-County Association for the Education of Young Children 2009

• The Young Audiences Sunshine Award for Arts Excellence in Northeast Ohio Schools 2003

• Publications – Rock ‘N’ Rhymes Frolic Lesson Plans and CD for PreK – 3, Self-published in 2009 Penca Design Group, Cleveland, OH, 2010

• Stories/Dramas with Lesson Plans in paperback and CD.  I wrote these stories and songs to be used in classrooms and performances

Under the Butterfly Tree, 2003

Another Branch of Life, 2000