ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
- 01/28/2012 - 02/23/2012: !!!!!!!! February Board Meeting date has been changed to February 23rd !!!!!!!!!!! 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
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- 01/28/2012 - 02/23/2012: !!!!!!!! February Board Meeting date has been changed to February 23rd !!!!!!!!!!! 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
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- 01/28/2012 - 02/23/2012: !!!!!!!! February Board Meeting date has been changed to February 23rd !!!!!!!!!!! 5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
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MEET THE APL STAFF
Rosanne Blevins
Years in education: 22
Curriculum areas: Science and Math
Favorite Candy Bar: Baby Ruth
Hobbies: Gardening, Hiking, Building things, The Great
Outdoors, Skiing, Snowboarding, Bike riding, learning new
things
Cyndee Bruster
Years in education: 11
Curriculum areas: Elementary Math & Visual Arts
Favorite Book: The Bible
Favorite Candy Bar: Snickers
Hobbies: Scrapbooking, Cake-decorating
Favorite Quote: "No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent. ... You can only grow if you are willing to
feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something ..."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Peggy D. Youmans
Years in education: 6
Curriculum areas: Middle School English
Favorite Book: This is tough! C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy
among many others...
Favorite Candy Bar: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Hobbies: Music, hiking, camping, pets, reading,
photography, dinner trains
Favorite Quote: Hebrew: gam zeh yaavor:
This too shall pass.
Vanessa Burger
Years in education: 10
Curriculum areas: Multiple Subjects
Favorite Book: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! ~Dr. Seuss
Favorite Candy Bar: See’s Candy Milk Bordeaux Bar
Hobbies: camping, boating, wakeskating, surfing, running,
spending time with family and friends
Favorite Quote: “All kids need is a little help, a little
hope and somebody who believes in them." ~"Magic" Johnson
Cassie Cable
Years in education: 10
Curriculum areas: Primary education
Favorite Book: The Bible
Favorite Candy Bar: Organic Dark Chocolate
Hobbies: Gardening, biking, kayaking, hiking, playing with
my family
Favorite Quote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I
took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the
difference"
- Robert Frost
Alan Call
Years in education: 23
Curriculum areas: Math
Favorite Book: Les Miserable
Favorite Candy Bar: dark chocolate
Hobbies: walking, stamp collecting, chess
Favorite Quote: "The best revenge is not to become like the
one who wronged you." - Marcus Aurelius
Kimberly Coughren
Years in education: 10
Curriculum areas: Multiple Subject/Library Science
Favorite Book: I'm a librarian, what book don't I like?
Favorite Candy Bar: Licorice
Hobbies: Running, scrapbooking, reading, fix-up projects
around the house
Favorite Quote: "The brick walls are there for a reason ...
to show us how badly we want something," he said. "Because
the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want
it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." -
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture.
Christine Eatmon
Years in education: 6
Curriculum areas: elementary science
Favorite Book: Harry Potter Series
Favorite Candy Bar: Snickers and York Peppermint Patty
Hobbies: Spending time with family, Raquet Ball, Yoga,
Hiking, Camping
Favorite Quote: "Hope is the pain of today replaced by the
promise of tomorrow" and "Let Your Life Song Sing"
Helen Hazel
Years in education: 20
Curriculum areas: Reading
Favorite book: The Hobbit
Favorite Candy Bar: M & M's
Hobbies: swimming, reading, church activities, and best of all, being with my daughters
Favorite TV Movie: Anne of Green Gables
Wendy McBroome
Years in education: 14
Curriculum areas: Spanish, GATE
Favorite Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Favorite Candy Bar: Anything chocolate with nuts
Hobbies: Cub Scouts, sewing, cooking, camping, avid bookworm
Favorite Quote: "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus P.W.B.
Dumbledore
Barbara Mehr
Years in education: 10
Curriculum areas: Standards-based
Learning, Social Studies
Favorite Book: By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman
Favorite Candy Bar: Mr. Goodbar
Hobbies: Hiking, Backpacking, Traveling, Chicken Farming
Favorite Quote: "When you learn, teach, when you get,
give." — Maya Angelou
Christie Morris
Years in education: 26
Curriculum areas: Special
Education-Language Arts and Math
Favorite Book: The Thread that Runs so True
Favorite Candy Bar: Snickers
Hobbies: Gardening, Canning, Snow/Water skiing, Kayaking,
and Art
Favorite Quote: Forward ever, backward never
Jeanna Parks
Years in education: 9
Curriculum areas: History and English
Favorite Book: Angle of Repose
Favorite Candy Bar: Twix (caramel)
Hobbies: Scrapbooking (if I ever get time to), reading,
cooking.
Cindy Silva
Years in education: 7 (I home-schooled my own 5 kids for
15+ years)
Curriculum areas: K-8, Computer Technology and Business
Favorite Book(s): Ender's Game series
Favorite Candy Bar: Anything chocolate
Hobbies: Spending time with my family, outdoor sports,
camping, playing games and reading
Favorite Quote: Proverbs 3:5
Robin Thorne
Years in education: 5
Curriculum areas: English
Favorite Book: It changes with every book I read
Favorite Candy Bar: See’s Dark Chocolate Butterchew
Hobbies: Running, Running, Running, and oh Reading
Favorite Quote: Anima Sana in Corpore Sano: a sound mind in
a sound body
Sherina Weide
Years in education : 10
Favorite Book: Pride and Prejudice
Favorite Candy Bar: Carmel anything
Hobbies: Reading; Boating; Swimming
Favorite Quote: "It is not so important to know everything
as to appreciate what we learn" - Hannah More
Lynn Weidenkeller
Years in education: 23
Curriculum areas: Ceramics
Favorite Book: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West
African Tale
Favorite Candy Bar: Anything chocolate
Hobbies: Arts and crafts, reading, walking, working on the
land
Favorite Quote:"It takes a village to raise a child."
African proverb