I started at Dowling in 2005.
I have been a Minneapolis Public Schools teacher since 1996, teaching at Sanford, Willard, Bryn Mawr and  now Dowling.
I have a B.A. degree from North Park College in Chicago and a Master's degree from Bethel University in St. Paul. I taught in the Phillipines for two years with the Peace Corps.
I am licensed to teach Elementary grades 1-5 and ELL K-12.
I teach the ELL students in all grades.
I enjoy teaching reading through social studies and science as well as literature.
I push the students to read at home at their independent reading level. In class we work at their instructional level, which is more challenging for them.
I spent two weeks last summer at an environmental schoolyard ecology class at the University of Minnesota and I am trying to integrate outdoor environmental activities with our reading and writing. We are watching the changing seasons and documenting it in our journals with writing and drawing.
You can contact me at 612-668-4438 or Beverly.Tavernier@mpls.k12.mn.us