New Faculty and Staff for 2011-2012 The SSFS community welcomes the following new faculty and staff: LOWER SCHOOL We are thrilled to welcome Brenda Crawley to SSFS as the new Lower School Head! Prior to coming to SSFS, Brenda spent seven years as the Lower School Head at the McLean School of Maryland. Please read Brenda's full (and impressive!) profile on pages 18-19... Jenny Lingelbach, Third Grade teacher, has been a member of the Sandy Spring community for the past 12 years: she is the mother of Catie Lingelbach '12; served as the clerk of the PA; and worked in the business/admissions office here at SSFS before her decision to pursue a career in early childhood education. Jenny taught 1st through 4th graders at Friends Community School in College Park before coming back to teach at SSFS. A lifelong Quaker, Jenny has attended Quaker schools (Germantown Friends School from K-12 and Haverford College for undergrad), and worked in Quaker schools (Penn Charter, SSFS, Friends Community) all her life. Bela Meghani, First Grade teacher, is also familiar to many here on campus: she is the mother of three current Springers - Ravi, Tomar, and Lilli. Bela received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, and is currently working on her Master's in Early Childhood Education. Bela was born in India and moved to the United States when
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she was three. She is a lover of maps and geography, a reader of classics and fantasy, and science education is her passion. Kiki Vargas, Fifth Grade teacher, is yet another SSFS community member: her two sons Micah and Taddy both attend SSFS. Kiki received her B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta, and an M.A. in Special Education and Learning Disabilities from Columbia University Teacher's College. Before coming to SSFS, Kiki taught at the Churchill School, the Lab School of Washington, and the McLean School of Maryland.
Heidi Butterworth, MS Math teacher, received a B.A. in Environmental Economics from Colgate University, and an M.A.T. in Math and Special Education from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. She has extensive outdoor education experience, and will also be teaching MS Outdoor Education. Heidi has taught at The Day School in Baltimore and the Lab School in Washington, DC. She also served as "Chief Mate" in the Living Classrooms Foundation, where she taught a hands-on ecology curriculum.
Ashlee McKinnon, MS Movement Teacher, joins MIDDLE SCHOOL us from Statesville, NC, where she earned her Patrick Salmasi, MS teaching license in Dance English teacher and Education from the Uniavid reader, comes to versity of North Carolina Maryland most recently at Charlotte. She also holds a B.A. from Unifrom Florida, where versity of Maryland College Park in Dance, and he taught English and a M.Div. from Princeton Seminary. Dance is her interdisciplinary units pasison, and she is excited and driven to show in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. its impact on the lives for her students and the Patrick received his B.A. from Florida State SSFS community. University and is currently working on an M.A. in English (Concentration in MulticulUPPER SCHOOL tural and Transnational Literature) from East Carolina University. Jerome (J.) Cole, Assistant Head of Upper Tyler Rieth, MS Music School for College teacher, graduated from Counseling, received Cornerstone University his B.A. from Catholic in Grand Rapids, MI, University, and has an with a B.A. in music M.A. in Education and education and a B.A. in Human Development from George Washingmusic composition. Ty- ton University. He brings a wealth of experiler’s experience includes drama, music, sound ence in college guidance, independent school technical work, and performance. He has management, and leadership of organizations played in jazz bands as well as pit orchestras, as a result of his six years at Edmund Burke, toured across Italy three times with a choir five years at Bethesda - Chevy Chase High and brass quintet, and has had his original School, and twenty years in the U.S. Navy. J. music performed by a number of groups. will be working with Megan Hoover, who
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