Kim Holdbrooks Townsel is a National Board Certified Teacher. She taught high school and middle school for over sixteen years. She is now a college instructor and helps preservice interns learn to be better teachers. Kim Holdbrooks Townsel loves to learn, but doesn't like to spend more time studying than she has to. She used the strategies in School Skills 101 to earn a 4.0 Masters degree from the University of Alabama and a 4.0 CLAD from UCLA. She also used them to pass her National Board Certification on her first try.