2021-2022 New Staff

What does your position entail?  Trying to help as many students, teachers, staff members and parents get the education that their student deserves. What does a day in your life look like?  Most days, when I get here, I kind of roll through and check facility and tech issues. Then I get that information out to the right people or contact the right people in the district to get those issu...

What does your position entail? I teach Woods 1, 2, 3 and 4, so it's four levels of woods. The first is beginning, the second is manufacturing, the third and fourth are fabrications… It is offered for freshmen through seniors… I have some seniors, I have some freshmen, I have some sophomores and juniors. I really don’t treat anyone differently. Kids are kids.   What does a day in your l...

What does your position entail? I am teaching US History and World Regional Studies, so juniors and freshmen. What does a day in your life look like?  Being a coach, it depends whether I'm in season or out of season. Right now, it consists most of the time getting to school sometime between 6:30 and 7 a.m., I’ll teach all day, go to practice, if it’s a shorter practice I’ll lift afterwar...

What does your position entail?  I teach the Introduction to Studio Art class. In Intro to Art, we do a variety of different types of projects. So we do anything from drawing, painting and ceramics to sculpture. We do a variety of things, because that kind of helps feed into the other art courses that we have here at NW. It's a prerequisite class to get into the other classes. So we do a lot of d...

What does your position entail? I help all of the counselors at Shawnee Mission Northwest. I’m really new, I started in July. Before then, I was a para [educator] at an elementary school, so this is a whole different skill set for me. I schedule appointments for students to meet with their counselors, I do new student enrollment and I also help with graduation. What do you do for new student enrollment? A lot o...

What does your position entail?  As a school counselor, I represent students with the last names F-L. We are primarily academic advisors, helping students with grades, creating schedules and making sure that they're taking courses that fulfill graduation requirements. We are sometimes the person that students may see if they're having a crisis and need to be referred perhaps to the social work...

What does your position entail?  I teach mostly ninth graders. I teach them World Regional Studies. At the end of the day, I teach economics, which is a mix of all of the grades. And then before school and after school, I work with the dance team. What does a day in your life look like?  I wake up and I pet my cats because I love cats. Their names are Venus and Neptune. I normally leave my house a...

What does your position entail? I teach five hours of freshman biology, or Biology 1. Because I teach five hours of that, I am also in a special group of teachers, where we intensively look at how we can best administer the success of freshman. What does a day in your life look like?  I wake up at around 6 a.m. I get my breakfast and get ready for the day. I will get all my papers together...

What does your position entail? Buzzing people in the doors, checking IDs, getting visitor stickers, answering the phones, directing them to who they need to go to and distributing mail. I write passes for the office if they need students to come in. I take care of the coffee machines in the building, if anything's wrong with those. Anything that needs help, if someone needs help with something...

What does your position entail? I spend my day just visiting with students, helping them when they have medical concerns and treating them as appropriately as I can within my scope of practice. Then sometimes, my day just involves sitting down and just talking with students when they need a little break from school.  What does a day in your life look like?  My daily life at school is very ...

What does your position entail? My position is about helping students decide what their path is, after their time here at Shawnee Mission Northwest. While my title is college adviser, we can talk about all different types of schooling, as well as the workforce, military and maybe a gap year of some sort.  What does a day in your life look like?  I would say getting here early in the morning about 7-7:20...

What does your position entail?  My position at Shawnee Mission Northwest is two-fold. I am a teacher and the head gymnastics coach. I teach ELA 3 for all my classes and then I am the head coach for SM North and Northwest. What does a day in your life look like?  A typical day for me starts at 5 a.m. as my husband and I race around our house to get ready for the day. When I get to schoo...

What does your position entail? Teaching Intro to Business and Financial Literacy, coaching, building the boys’ and girls’ wrestling team and assisting with Varsity and JV Football. What does a day in your life look like? [I] wake up and get ready, get my son ready for preschool, drop him off, get to school [and] teach. After school, [I coach] practices. My daughter plays middle school voll...

Say and spell your first and last name and your official title. Emily Pinkston  What does your position entail? I’m a math teacher. I teach integrated Algebra, Geometry and Honors Pre-Calc. What does a day in your life look like?  I wake up at 5:15 a.m. and I try to get to school by 7 a.m. I teach my classes, and then after school, I go home, workout, eat dinner and then work all ev...

What does your position entail?  I'm here to provide mental health support and emotional support for any student at Northwest that falls between A-L. If kids are having a bad day or you need help problem solving, then every student at Northwest has a social worker assigned to their portion of the alphabet, just like there is an academic counselor. I'm here to help.  What does a day in your ...

What does your position entail?  It entails working with our gifted population of students. Gifted and talented students are a very unique population with challenges, setting goals and looking to the future. What does a day in your life look like? I get up early, just like all of us. I also pay close attention to current events, so that it's a topic that I can talk with my students about. Also...