Mrs. Girot has a Masters in Education and a Masters in Education Leadership, possessing a school leadership administration license. She currently teaches ELD classes for Alpine School District, volunteers as a general education and online specialist for post-secondary accreditation reviews, and acts as a volunteer team member for Cognia accreditation reviews. 

 

Born in Michigan, she was raised in a culturally diverse inner city. A student of poverty and trauma, she overcame adversity and embraced education as a vehicle to pursue her dreams.  

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In college, she explored her diverse interests in science, art and technology, ultimately choosing a major in Microbiology. She customized a study abroad program through Michigan State University at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, where she studied Biochemistry, Immunology, Physics, and Industrial Microbiology in Spanish, while immersing herself in the university's international community, studying Spanish, Mexican History and Literature classes with students from all over the world.

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She later earned her Bachelor's in Education from Arizona State University. Using her science background, she taught Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology full time at the Arizona School of Massage Therapy and completed Yoga Teacher Training at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts.

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Shortly after 9/11, Mrs. Girot spent a month in the Islamic nation of Malaysia as a GSE Cultural Ambassador for Rotary International.  She had the privilege of building relationships with Rotary members across Malaysia, taking tours of businesses and industries, witnessing the club's charities in action, all the while embracing the Chinese, Indian, and Malay's three distinct cultures.  

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Mrs. Girot was fortunate to participate in a National Geographic Expedition, where she traveled by floater plane and helicopter through the Alaska wilderness to the Taku River. For ten days she rafted down the Taku River, working beside four National Geographic live-in residents to collect insect, bird, soil, plant, and tree specimens. Evenings were spent around the campfire with songs and tall tales boasting openers such as: "One night, standing on a bluff in Haiti with a Voodoo Priest..."

 

Mrs. Girot's passion for culture was amplified when she taught in the beautiful state of Hawai'i at the prestigious International Baccalaureate Niu Valley Middle School. Immersed in the spirit of Aloha, she came to know the subtle cultural and linguistic nuances of the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Samoan, Filipino, and Hawaiian peoples. It was a soulful awakening.

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Long before the pandemic, Mrs. Girot became a pioneer of using technology to engage students in the classroom. She was a CTE Multimedia Teacher at Utah Virtual Academy High School for five years, participating in a five-year school improvement and turnaround process, resulting in successful exit from turnaround. She has served students with disabilities and English learners as a Special Education Teacher, 504 Coordinator, and ELL Coordinator. Today she continues to serve marginalized students as an ESL teacher for the only Title I secondary school in Alpine School District, Orem Junior High, and also at Mountain View High School.