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Meet the Enrichment Teachers
Looking for something to doover the summer? Please goto our
Summer Ideas page onour website. There you will
find lots of ideas for eachsubject area of interest. We
hope you find these helpful toencourage your child tocontinue
learning and
exploring during the summer
break!
Summer Ideas Page
Mandy Fox
It is such a privilege to be an
enrichmentteacher forGreystone. Ihave had awonderfulyear and
amthrilled tohave theopportunityto work withyou and yourchild
thisyear where
we will havelots of funand makemanymemories. I hope this letter
will helpyou get to know me and answer anyquestions you might
have.
I have been in Hoover City Schools foreight years. I was a
technology coachfor Hoover City Schools for the firstsix years.
Before coming to Hoover, Iwas a technology coordinator for
Highlands School and before that wasa classroom teacher teaching
fourthand fifth grade. I went to BerryCollege in Rome, Georgia for
myundergrad in Elementary Educationand have my Masters and EdS.
inEducational Technology from LesleyUniversity in
Cambridge,Massachusetts. I am currently workingon a second Master
degree in GiftedEducation at Samford University. I
have been teaching for 14 years andam Nationally Board
Certified.
My husband, Steve Fox, is also a
teacher
inHooverandteacheseighthgradescienceatSimmonsMiddleSchool.
Ihavebeenmarriedfor nineyears and
have threewonderful boys, Marshall, 6; Micah, 3;and Max, 1. I
met my husband whileliving in Guatemala where we bothworked as
missionaries in anorphanage taking care of 500 children.I taught
classes at the middle schoolduring the day and was mom to 63teenage
girls when I got home. Some
of my hobbies are photography,moviemaking, spending time with
mychildren, gardening, and computers.
One of my goals for this year is to helpyour child become a
life-long learner. Ihope to develop students who are notafraid to
ask questions and search forthe answers. I also hope that I
caninstill in your child a love of learningand an excitement about
thepossibilities that exist for their future.
Next year we are so excited to begin offering Parent
Seminar Opportunities such as a book study, guest
speakers, parenting tips, and more. Be looking for
information coming about these Parent Seminar
Opportunities beginning in August!
Parent Seminars Set to
Begin in August
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Parents:
If you would like to be involved in the enrichment program this
year, we would love your help. Some of the
opportunities available are: bulletin boards, copying, field
trips, robotics team support, magazine editing
support, and expert guest lecturers. Contact us
[email protected]
GREYSTONE ELEMENTARY
Judy Simpson
I am looking forward to another
wonderful year working with your
children. This will be my fifteenth
year at Greystone and my fourteenth as
an enrichment teacher. I can honestly
say that I have a fantastic job and am
blessed to work with amazing kids,
supportive families, and a dynamic
faculty. I also have a great co-teacher
for enrichment. Mandy and I work
together really well and have skills that
complement each other. (shes the
techno-wizard and Im the organizer!)
Before I came to Greystone, I taught
sixth grade science and language arts
in Jacksonville, Florida for six years. I
have a bachelors degree in Elementary
Education from Florida State
University and a masters in Gifted and
Talented Education from the
University of Alabama. I am also a
National Board Certified Teacher.
My husband, Joel, is an architect. We
have been married for nine years andbetween the two of us we
have six
grown children. We have two
grandsons and 8 grand-dogs. We also
have two little kittens, Max and
Abbey! We enjoy reading, movies,
gardening, and traveling.
It is a privilege to work with the
enrichment students. I know that these
leaders of tomorrow will not learn allthey need to know in
school. Knowing
how to access information, how to
discern which information is
appropriate, and what to do with that
information are skills they will need
throughout their lifetime. It is my
desire to use the units of study that we
offer to help them accomplish this task
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