Dr. Karen Carey holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a math minor, and a master’s degree in education administration with an Oklahoma elementary principal certificate. She completed a doctorate degree in adult education, May 2001, from University of Arkansas. Her work experience includes two years of teaching sixth grade at Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston, Texas, and seven years teaching math and language to fifth and sixth graders in Moore, Oklahoma at Plaza Towers Elementary. Dr. Carey’s peers voted her Teacher of the Year her last year in public education.