About Annemarie
My name is Annemarie Johnson and I have a passion for teaching–teaching children and teaching teachers.  It is for this reason that I spend my time working in classrooms and presenting seminars, workshops, and conferences for teachers.  One of my greatest joys is being able to motivate children to want to learn.  Another is being able to help teachers bring the joy back into their own teaching.  I consider myself a “teacher’s teacher.”

Teaching Experience
This is my 25th year in the field of education.  I spent my first ten years teaching in an elementary school in the Canton City School District in Canton, Ohio.  I spent the next five years just south of Akron, Ohio teaching in the Green Local School District.  At the end of those five years, my husband was transferred to the metro Detroit, MI area where we now reside.  During our last year in Ohio, I began to wear two professional hats–elementary teacher and educational consultant.  After the move, I began to focus more exclusively on consulting.  During this time I have had the opportunity to travel all across the United States and Canada and even Haiti to work with thousands of teachers.  I have presented seminars for teachers on a huge variety of topics focusing mostly on literacy.

Education
Grove City College – Grove City, PA – B.A. Elementary Education

University of Akron – Akron, OH – M.A. – Reading Supervision

Partial Client List

  • Bureau of Education and Research (BER)
  • Institute for Educational Development (IED)
  • Ohio Department of Education
  • Castleberry ISD – Fort Worth, TX
  • Green Local School District – Uniontown, OH
  • State of Hawaii Department of Education
  • South Slave Educational Council – Hay River, NT, Canada
  • Ashland University – Massillon, OH
  • Oakland Schools ISD – Waterford, MI
  • Bedford Public Schools – Bedford, MA
  • Southeast Michigan Lutheran Schools
  • St. Joseph Public Schools – St. Joseph, MI
  • Warrenton Public Schools – Warrenton, MO
  • Ogdenbsburg Public Schools – Ogdensburg, NJ
  • Laingsburg Public Schools – Laingsburg, MI
  • Owosso Public Schools – Owosso, MI
  • Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit – Detroit, MI
  • Berkley School District – Berkley, MI
  • Hazel Park Schools – Hazel Park, MI
  • Lake Orion Community Schools – Lake Orion, MI

Personal
I have been married to my husband Rick for over 21 years.  All who have met him know that his blood is scarlet and gray, an Ohio State Buckeye to the core–he even proposed to me at an Ohio State football game!  We have three children:  a 17-year-old daughter, 15-year-old son, and a 11-year-old son.  They keep us very busy!  One of our favorite family activities is traveling the U.S. in our travel trailer.  This past summer we completed our 8th annual summer road trip and traveled west and then north along the Rocky Mountains. We visited many beautiful places including the Colorado Sand Dunes, Rocky Mountain National Park, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, and Banff and Jasper. This was a milestone year for us as we finally made it to all 48 of the continental states!