Karen Nuttle graduated from Capital University   in Columbus Ohio with a B.S. in Elementary Education and  from Eastern Michigan University with M.A. in  Special Education.  She has taught for 31 years in Ohio , Michigan , Virginia , North Carolina , New Mexico , and Oklahoma in addition to Arkansas .   She completed a  three year program with Los Alamos National Laboratories for Teacher Opportunities to Promote Science.  She has written three grants which have been funded.   She is currently enrolled the Literacy Laboratory program at Harding University .  She was the 2005-6 Gentry High School Teacher of the Year and the  Gentry 2005-06  District Teacher of the Year.