Welcome to the 2018-2019 school year.  I am Ms. Simms a Family & Consumer Science teacher at Pearland High School in the Career & Tech Department.  I am in the 27th year of teaching for PISD and honored to be part of this district and campus.  I enjoy the diverse courses I teach in FCS.  FCS was formerly known as Home Economics which is noted in my teaching certificate as Vocational Home Economics.  I enjoy the content I teach and also know the objectives give value and maturity to students in my classes.  I have been teaching child guidance since I started at PHS 20 years ago. It takes a village to raise a child and I am blessed to be part of the village.   I am also teaching the new class to PHS; Intro to Culinary.  With the consrtuction updates at PHS looking at the career pathway in Culinary Arts it will be exciting to be a part of the Hospitality & Tourism career cluster.  Even though this is a new course to PHS it is not new content for me.  I have several years of experience in restaurant management so I am able to bring hands on knowledge to the class.