Meet Our Faculty & Staff
Linda Murdock
Head of School
Dr. Dwight Pullen
Assistant Head of School
Peter Murdock
COO & CFO
Dawn Schooley
Director of Admissions
Dr. Shelly Boardman
Director of Student Affairs
“People often say, “I’ll be happy when…” Being happy does not mean to always get what you want. Happiness comes when you love what you have and you are grateful for it.”
“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”
– Mark Twain
“Live life by laughing a lot, dreaming big … when you fall, get up and run faster. Life is not about me, it’s about the people that surround me.”
“Our job is not to prepare students for something. Our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.”
– A.J Julianin
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Linda Murdock
Head of School
“People often say, “I’ll be happy when…” Being happy does not mean to always get what you want. Happiness comes when you love what you have and you are grateful for it.”
Dr. Dwight Pullen
Assistant Head of School
“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”
– Mark Twain
Peter Murdock
COO & CFO
“Live life by laughing a lot, dreaming big … when you fall, get up and run faster. Life is not about me, it’s about the people that surround me.”
Dawn Schooley
Director of Admissions
“Our job is not to prepare students for something. Our job is to help students prepare themselves for anything.”
– A.J Julianin
Dr. Shelly Boardman
Director of Student Affairs
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Laura Dollar
Director of Student Activities
Myah Dickerson
Director of Performing Arts
Kevin Rein
Athletic Director & Math Teacher
Eric Burin
History Teacher
Cameron Chiostergi
Math & PE Teacher
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach them to learn by creating curiosity, they will continue the learning process as long as they live.”
– Clay P. Bedford
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
– Confucius
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out a way to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
-Michael Jordan
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
– Tim Duncan
“Choosing to be an educator is choosing to be a perennial optimist. You’re buying into the future. You’re playing a part in the foundation of the lives of your students”
Laura Dollar
Director of Student Activities
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out a way to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
-Michael Jordan
Myah Dickerson
Director of Performing Arts
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach them to learn by creating curiosity, they will continue the learning process as long as they live.”
– Clay P. Bedford
Kevin Rein
Athletic Director & Math Teacher
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
– Tim Duncan
Eric Burin
History Teacher
“Choosing to be an educator is choosing to be a perennial optimist. You’re buying into the future. You’re playing a part in the foundation of the lives of your students”
Cameron Chiostergi
Math & PE Teacher
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
– Confucius
Sue Coll
Junior Kindergarten Teacher
Janet Gillam
Language Arts Teacher
Tracey Gunter-Rosen
Technology Teacher
Christine Hill
Math Teacher
Diana Dowd
Mandarin Teacher
“No one should have to choose one language and culture over the other because having both is undeniably better than having just one.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
– John Locke
“Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
– Bob Talbert
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to person excellence.”
– Confucius
Sue Coll
Junior Kindergarten Teacher
“No one should have to choose one language and culture over the other because having both is undeniably better than having just one.”
Janet Gillam
Language Arts Teacher
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
– John Locke
Tracey Gunter-Rosen
Technology Teacher
“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”
– Steve Jobs
Christine Hill
Math Teacher
“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.”
– Bob Talbert
Diana Dowd
Mandarin Teacher
“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to person excellence.”
– Confucius
Cindy LaSalle
Business Teacher
Nancy Lee
Mandarin Teacher
Amanda Lough
Math Teacher
Janice Placanica
Science Teacher
Goldie Robinson
Art Teacher
“No child left behind.”
– Montana’s Office of Public Instruction’s policy
“People at birth are naturally good. Their natures are similar; their habits become different. If, negligently, not taught, their nature deteriorates. The right way to teach, is with absolute concentration … Jade that has not been polished cannot be used. Person that has not studied cannot know righteousness.”
– Three-Character Classic poem by Wang Yinglin
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
– Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”
– Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Cindy LaSalle
Business Teacher
“No child left behind.”
– Montana’s Office of Public Instruction’s policy
Nancy Lee
Mandarin Teacher
“People at birth are naturally good. Their natures are similar; their habits become different. If, negligently, not taught, their nature deteriorates. The right way to teach, is with absolute concentration … Jade that has not been polished cannot be used. Person that has not studied cannot know righteousness.”
– Three-Character Classic poem by Wang Yinglin
Amanda Lough
Math Teacher
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Janice Placanica
Science Teacher
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
– Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Goldie Robinson
Art Teacher
“Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”
– Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
Bobbie Spamer
Social Studies Teacher
Denise Stanford
Science Teacher
Kelly Webb
Language Arts Teacher
Nicole Zerr
Kindergarten Teacher
Karen Bird
Paraprofessional
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
– Albert Einstein
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!”
– Dr. Seuss
“The strength of our student relationships makes the difference in translating our passion for teaching into their passion for learning.”
– Beth Morrow
“I want to be that teacher that when my children look back on their education they feel love in their hearts, have a smile on their face and can truly say they knew I cared.”
Bobbie Spamer
Social Studies Teacher
“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Denise Stanford
Science Teacher
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
– Albert Einstein
Kelly Webb
Language Arts Teacher
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!”
– Dr. Seuss
Nicole Zerr
Kindergarten Teacher
“The strength of our student relationships makes the difference in translating our passion for teaching into their passion for learning.”
– Beth Morrow
Karen Bird
Paraprofessional
“I want to be that teacher that when my children look back on their education they feel love in their hearts, have a smile on their face and can truly say they knew I cared.”
Sandy Delenick
English Teacher
Tara Heimberger
Psychology Teacher
Giselle Fresnillo
Enrichment Teacher
William Starr
Spanish Teacher
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”
-Helen Keller
“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.”
– Dolly Parton
“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“The Righteous may fall seven times and rise again.”
Sandy Delenick
English Teacher
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.”
-Helen Keller
Tara Heimberger
Psychology Teacher
“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.”
– Dolly Parton
Giselle Fresnillo
Enrichment Teacher
“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed”
– Vincent Van Gogh
William Starr
Spanish Teacher
“The Righteous may fall seven times and rise again.”
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