Susan Crooks graduated with a BA from the University of Georgia in 1974 with a double major in English and German. Ms. Crooks holds an MAT from Georgia State University and an Educational Specialist degree in Instructional Technology from the State University of West Georgia. She has taught German for 28 years in DeKalb and Cobb counties and spent 3 years at the Georgia Department of Education as the Foreign Language and International Education Specialist.