Mrs. Shackles has been an educator for seventeen years.  She graduated from PSU in Kansas, but started her teaching career in Arkansas where she taught fourth grade for three years.  She then went to Missouri where she developed a district ESL program for Aurora RVIII and was a K-12 ESL instructor.  Mrs. Shackles was then hired to work for Missouri State University as an Instructional Specialist and Technical Counsultant.  After seven years with MSU, she moved to Texas where she worked as a consultant and spent one year as a Reading Interventionist at Georgetown ISD.  Mrs. Shackles is married, has three grown children, and moved to Ocala two years ago to be closer to family.  "I am happy to be a part of the Saddlewood family and I am look forward to working with Mrs. Jones again this year."