Welcome our new 5th Grade Teacher

Wendy will be in her classroom on Thursday,  December 7th.  Please stop by to meet her.  The time is from 5:00-5:45.  The town's businesses are also open for people to stop in at 6:00pm, followed by a town concert at the church. 





Ms. Wendy M. Ziert - Grade 5 Teacher 

M.A.T. in Social Science with an emphasis in Gifted Education and an independent study in Museum Educaton from Webster University, St. Louis, MO.

B.S. in Education from Loyola University Chicago, IL

As a mid-western native, Ms. Wilson began her teaching career as a student teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. It was there that she embraced the abundant cultures represented in her classes and sought to make diversity a focus in her career.  Ms. Wilson's experience has included teaching across all grade levels, K-12 with English and History at the secondary level.  In addition, she has extensive experience as a gifted education coordinator where she worked to enhance the curriculum by finding the gifts within all learners.  She has also served as an assistant principal, an International Baccalaureate CAS coordinator, district level staff development facilitator and an adjunct professor for coursework centered around the methodologies of S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity).  Ms. Wilson enjoys coming to school each day and learning alongside her students by employing innovative methods that embrace project based inquiry.  She has two daughters in college, one at Vassar College and the youngest at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In her free time, she might be found at a Shakespearean performance, getting lost in a used book store hunting for yet another Austen crafted codex to add to her collection, hiking up some beaten trail along a stream or whipping together a concoction of ingredients in the kitchen that is always sure to include garlic.

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