Miss Stone is a native Houstonian and has been a Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation (TDLR) Certified Instructor since 2003.  She relocated to Lago Vista, TX and loves the small town atmosphere and scenic views.  She has a BBA in Business Administration and a Minor In Secondary Education from Midwestern State University Texas, Wichita Falls, TX.  She is a State Certified Business Teacher and Coach with a lifetime license and is also State Certified for K-8th. She played on scholarship intercollegiate Basketball 2 seasons at MSU (Co-Captain) and 2 seasons at North Central Texas College in Gainesville, TX and intercollegiate Volleyball (Co-Captain) and Softball each for one season at MSU.

In June 2024, in order to adjust training methods to better support students with disabilities so they may achieve greater success in obtaining driving skills, she began a course study for Special Ed (SPED) Driver’s ED. Texas has shown the biggest increase in serving students with Disabilities or Learning Impairments (Autism, ADD/ ADHD, Dyslexia-not just a reading problem, Information Processing, Abnormal Anxiety, Social Anxiety (being near other students in the classroom and small-scale car environment), all of which produce a huge obstacle for learning. In the past 2-4 years of her career history of 21 years of training students, she has seen and experienced a huge increase of students that are lacking confidence (more fearful-less trusting of self and Instructor) and an increase in obstacles to mastering the skills needed for safe driving due to learning impairments. Her registration data is showing 42% are registering with some type of Learning Impairment and since her formal training in college was for teaching general level high school students, it was not for SPED. She has quickly acquired new methods and is adapting multiple lesson plans that will better support the Learning Impaired Student. She is also highly attuned to the fact that the majority of students have been using their cell phone in the car since middle school as their parent takes them to their activities, therefore, they are NOT watching the roadways-traffic and Signs/Signals/Pavement Markings. So to combat this deficit, she requires the student to mark an Observation Worksheet (tick marks for sign awareness) while they are in the back seat observing the other student for one hour, and then they drive for one hour on these State Required 2-Hour Sessions. This observation exercise strengthens their awareness skills to focus on the law instead of being so fearful of other motorists.

In 2003, under TEA Driver’s Ed Instructor Training, she became certified for a DET (Driver’s Ed Teacher). In 2004, she became certified at Texas A&M University, to teach the Drug & Alcohol Driving Awareness Program. In 2011, she became TDLR Certified to teach Defensive Driving Safety also known as 'Ticket Dismissal Class'.  In 2013, she obtained the TDLR Supervisor Trainer endorsement and has trained others to become a Driver's Ed Teacher. Two of her students have opened their own school.  In 2011, she was trained in Motorcycle Safety and holds a Class M Motorcycle License.  TDLR and TEA require all instructors to be fingerprinted and pass all background checks and she has complied with both entities. She has taught for Gulf Coast, SafeWay and Stay Safe Driving Schools in the Greater Houston Area, and Longhorn and Lake Travis Driving in the Greater Austin area before starting her school 2018.

Her career before teaching was in the business field with employers Exxon USA-Training Division, Continental Airlines-Accounting Division, GE Capital Mortgage Servicing-Default Management Division, Barrett Burke Law Firm Mortgage Foreclosure and Bankruptcy-Bankruptcy Case Manager, Gray CPA & Associates PC-Tax Preparer, L. William Perrin CPA & Associates, PC.- Accounting, Bookkeeping and Tax Preparer.  She had a part-time wedding videography company and recorded and edited numerous weddings.  She was a teacher and coach in Houston, TX and led the Volleyball Team to 1st in State in their division her 2nd year and 4th in State her first year.  

She loves the outdoors, camping, hiking, softball, volleyball, soccer, photography and more recently the challenging game of golf and Wii tennis, when the weather is bad!  She has a sister who is a Pediatrician in Evansville, IN (with whom she routinely consults with for Adolescent Health/Mental Health Issues) and a brother who is the AEG Wardrobe Productions Manager for Garth Brooks, Rod Stewart, Adele, Usher, Seinfeld, Reba-Brooks & Dunn, etc. and formerly Celine Dion, Elton John at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace Las Vegas, NV. She lost her older sister to Cancer in 2014, so understands the issues of loss and grief, which is why she is very concerned that teens learn how to drive safely to avoid injurious and fatal collisions to avoid a painful and interruptive event in their life’s journey. Unfortunately, Parent Taught Behind-the-Wheel Car Training holds the highest rate of teen fatalities.