NEWS & NOTES
2000s Kelly Kustusch ’00, M.A.T in Elementary Education, is working for a disability awareness company which brings awareness to school districts. She is also the Marketing and Operations Director of an architectural design firm. Previously, she taught kindergarten and first grade before deciding to stay home and raise her three children. Tara Peacock ‘00 , M.A.T. in Elementary Education, is the new assistant principal at Parker Junior High School in Flossmoor School District 161. Maryann Scarborough ’00 , M.Ed. in Early Childhood Leadership and Advocacy, provides educational and mental health consultation for early childhood centers. She also provides mentoring to ECE professionals. Wendy Louis ‘01 , M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, who teaches at Putnam County High School, was a Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching finalist in 2019. Wendy Reed Randall ’02 , M.Ed. in Adult Developmental Studies, is a writer, motivational speaker, substance abuse counselor, and teacher who has taught students of all ages. She especially loves working with young students and encouraging them to embrace and enjoy reading and learning. She is the author of Once There Was a Girl: A Memoir . The catalyst for her story came from a written response to an assignment while she worked on her degree at NLU. Felicia Taylor ’03 , B.S. in Management, received her certification from Thinkful School for Data Analytics. She currently lives in Georgia. Marilyn Anderson Rhames ’04 , M.A.T. in Elementary Education, has been selected for a Pahara Institute Fellowship, a program that brings together leaders in educational excellence and equity, especially those serving low-income children and communities. She is a graduate student at the University of Arkansas. An education consultant with clients in the philanthropy, government and nonprofit sectors, Rhames served on the design team of Harvard University’s Leadership Institute of Faith and Education. Her book, The Master Teacher: 12 Spiritual Lessons That Can Transform Schools and Revolutionize Public Education , serves as a course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Rhames also founded Teachers Who Pray, a nonprofit with more than 140 school-based chapters in America. Katherine Bardales Sardeña ’06 , M.A.T. in Elementary Education, self-published a young adult translingual book in Spanish and English, Desde Chorrillos hasta Chicago: una novela translingüe. She is an elementary school teacher in the Chicago suburbs. Wendy Yanow ‘07, Ed.D. in Adult and Continuing Education, published a chapter “Teaching against Color Blindness” in a newly released book, Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism ( Jossey-Bass, 2018). Rachel Filippi ‘08 , M.A.T. Special Education, has been named Sherwood Elementary School Principal, North Shore School District 112, Highland Park, Ill. Deborah Finn ‘08 , M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision, has been named Principal at Highland Park High School in Ill.
Anna Sansone ‘08, M.A.T. Secondary Science, has been selected as the 2019 Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Teacher of the Year for the Europe South District. Anne is a 7th grade science teacher at Vicenza Middle School in Vicenza, Italy. She has taught at several American schools overseas, most notably in Japan, Turkey, and Italy. Bill Clifton ‘09 , A.A.S. Culinary
Arts, who is the executive chef and co-owner of The Counting House Restaurant and Pub in Georgetown, Delaware, appeared on The Food Network series “Beat Bobby Flay” on May 2, 2019. Kurt Pusch ‘09 , M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision, has been appointed Director of Summit Charter School, a tuition-free K-9 public charter school in the Cashiers-Highlands plateau of North Carolina.
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