Welcome to Connect FCS Ed. I'm so glad that you're back, thank you so much for listening. I'm your host Barbara Scully and today I have an amazing guest with me, Gencie Houy. Gencie has over 15 years of professional experience within family and consumer sciences education. This experience includes sixth through 12th grade FCS classroom instruction. She has CTE administration, writing curriculum, and post-secondary instruction and administration. She has a bachelor's degree in FCS from Texas Tech University, and a Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Lamar University. She is currently in the FCS doctoral program at Texas Tech. So Gencie, along with all of this, her experience and her expertise is in coordinating, mentoring and supervising students and student teachers, building one of the most effective ways of producing highly qualified FCS educators to fill in the in-demand education pipeline.