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5th Grade Teacher
After graduating with my BSBA in accounting, I earned my CPA and have now worked almost six years in both public and private accounting. It’s been an amazing opportunity to learn a useful profession and fine-tune my organizational and leadership skills. However, during this time, the Lord began tugging my heart in a different direction. For years, I have taught and tutored on the side and have found it to be highly rewarding and enjoyable. Besides being a lot of fun, tutoring offers me a little window into each student’s world, where I can speak truth and encouragement into their lives. Over time, God has turned my love of teaching into a calling, and I am thrilled to begin my teaching career at Veritas!
Outside of work, I’m a high school counselor and Sunday school helper at our local church. My favorite thing to do is to spend time with my wonderful family; as the second oldest of eight siblings, I am blessed with seven best friends! We love to go on adventures, hang out and talk, and just share life together. Two of my most surprising adventures of 2019 have been learning to ski and going on my first police ride along. Life stays exciting.
High School Cross Country Head Coach
I love working with sixth grade students at Veritas School. Throughout my career, God has blessed me with a rich variety of experiences, working with all ages from kindergarten to college. I returned to classroom teaching after serving three years as an assistant professor at George Fox University in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) department.
Additionally, I am the head coach of the high school cross country team. I have been honored with both Teacher of the Year and Coach of the Year awards. I enjoy playing, writing, and recording music; and hiking in nature, especially places new to me.
Art, Art History
Mathematics, Theology, College Advisor
Seventh Grade Humanities, Ninth Grade History of Natural Science, Twelfth Grade Leadership, and Veritas House Coordinator; accompanist for High School Music and Concert Choir
I classically homeschooled my own three children until 2005, when I and my husband, John, moved to Oregon from Los Angeles, choosing to live in Newberg so that our children could attend Veritas, from which all three have since graduated.
I am the director of worship arts for our local church, and my non-musical hobbies include hiking, bike riding, reading, gardening, and laughing with friends. My most recent personal achievement was walking the 500-mile Camino de Santiago across Spain with my daughter, Mimi!
Theology, Middle School Cross Country Coach
I worked in public education for 11 years, six of which as a full time teacher. I taught three years as a middle school social studies and reading teacher. After earning my M.A. I moved to a new school and was the Building Technology Specialist and Talented and Gifted Teacher.
In 2006 my family and I moved back to my wife’s hometown in Wyoming where I went into ministry. I became the youth pastor at a local Baptist church. This position quickly turned into a broader “Family Ministries” pastoral position. While serving in this role, I earned my Masters of Arts in Theological Studies from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
In January, 2014, my family and I moved to Newberg where I assumed the position of senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church. In the fall of 2014, we enrolled our children at Veritas and have fallen in love with the school. I teach freshmen and junior theology classes at Veritas.
Secondary Rhetoric & Humane Letters , Theology, Speech & Debate Coach
After a lovely six-year teaching start at a non-classical Christian school in the Seattle area, I decided to get my Masters in Teaching at Seattle Pacific University. While studying curriculum design I came across the ideas surrounding classical schools. I loved the idea of being an expert in the tools of learning: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
After learning about classical education, and with my masters in hand, and with a desire to move back to my childhood home of Oregon, I pursued classical schools in the Portland area and came upon Veritas in 2007. I have been teaching secondary Rhetoric II, Humane Letters, Theology, and I oversee the senior capstone project called Poiesis.
I especially have a passion for making logic relevant in citizenship and community discussions. I am trying to be an expert student.
Music & Choir
I am Veritas’ high school and middle school choir director, and I also teach general music to all sixth through twelfth graders at our school. My music and education degrees were earned at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and I continue to study choral conducting through workshops several times a year.
I have been learning about Classical Christian education since I first found out about it in 1992. My family’s move to Newberg happily coincided with the start of Veritas School in 1997, and I am so glad to be a part of this wonderful community of educators, students, and families.
I invite you to enjoy the Concert Choir at State in 2012. (Korean folksong, ‘Arirang’ with John Hyun Min Cho as soloist). I also invite you to enjoy Balleilakka and< Adoramus Te.
Although “my” Veritas Concert Choir is an award-winning group, and I love that, my main goal as a music teacher is to encourage students toward a lifelong enjoyment of music.
Humane Letters, Latin, Greek
After teaching in classical school, college, and homeschool settings in Chicago, I joined Veritas in 2004. Since then I have taught Latin, Greek, and Humane Letters continuously; along the way I also taught Theology for ten years, conducted a number of summer courses in Logic and in Latin, and directed a number of drama productions, first as an assistant and now as head director. Outside the usual school routine, I have helped to lead an educational trip to Italy & Greece, studied in Italy with the National Endowment for the Humanities, presented at local and national teaching conferences, and guest taught in the honors program at our local university.
Both in and out of the classroom, my hope and aim for my work here is to contribute to this through the pursuit of beautiful, accurate, joyful language as the means to deep, careful, generous thought.
I am glad to be a Veritas parent as well as a teacher: my son and daughter have both been consistently in and around Veritas since even before they were officially students. The privilege and blessing of having them take root and grow up among these students, families, teachers, and staff, is even greater than that of getting to teach here.
Earth Science
I was born and raised in Taiwan, the middle child of a large missionary family. I attended a local Chinese school through sixth grade before attending Taipei American School where my mother was, and still is, teaching middle school science. After high school, I taught various English classes and did translation work for several groups before attending the National Taiwan University, majoring in Geology. After two and a half years at NTU, I transferred to Fresno State University, where I graduated with a bachelor’s of science degree in 2004.
Education has always been important to me, so after I was married and had started a family, I embraced homeschooling, classically educating my children until our move to Oregon in 2018.
I am excited to be teaching my most beloved subject at Veritas, and sharing with my students my love for exploring the beauty of the world God gave us through the lens of science.