Administration

Donna Dunson – Principal
Eugene Kendrick – Assistant Principal
Chris Reams – Assistant Principal
Daniele Shick – Assistant Principal
Anuj Saran – Director of Educational Operations/IB Coordinator

Paul Buehner – Dean
Jason Dewitt – Dean
Carol Floyd – Behavior Management

Debbie Stinson – Testing Coordinator
Degrees: BS in Math from Flordia Southern College, Masters in Educational Leadership from USF
Quote: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years” -Abraham Lincoln

Krista Thompson – Title One Facilitator
Degrees: BS from Wingate University, Masters from the University of South Carolina
Quote: “Happy to be here!  Happy to serve!”  Krista Thompson original…. and “Have a great day the Ridge”
Kim Campbell – RTL Coordinator
Degree: B.S. Florida A&M University
Quote: ” We can never change our past, but through achievements made today we can mold our future”

School Counselors
Rebecca Thomas – Director and Counselor of A-G
Degrees: BS – Middle Grades Education Math and English from Campbellsville University, M.Ed. – School Guidance from Western Kentucky University, Ed. S. in Educational Leadership from Liberty University
Book: The Believers by Janice Holt Giles
Quote: “Learning happens when people feel comfortable in talking about both successes and failures.” Kouzes & Posner

Autumn Moyer – Counselor H-P
Degree: BA in Elementary Ed from Warner University, MS in School Counseling from Webster University
Book: Because of Winn-Dixie
Quote: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17

Theresa Roberts – Counselor Q-Z

School Resource Officer
Jonathan Flecher

Athletics
Marvin Pavy – Athletic Director

Technology Support
Gary LaSpina – Network Manager

Departments

Agriculture
Justin Sharpless
Degrees: BS in Agricultural Education and Masters of Agribusiness from the University of Florida
Book: A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
Quote: “Without labor, neither knowledge nor wisdom can accomplish much.” -Official FFA Ceremonies

Business
Linda Gee

Digital Arts
Cody Moyer
Degree: BA in Communication from Warner Southern College
Book: The Shack by William P. Young
Quote: “This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends.” John 15:13 ‘The Message’

English
Jonathan Berkenfield
Degree: B.S. Mass Communications at Florida Southern College
Book: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (entire series)
Quote: “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”  -Mark Twain

Suzanne Brockway
Degree: Erskine College- Majors: English and Spanish
Books: Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis, Teacher Man- all by Frank McCourt
Quote: “No man is an island, entire to itself; each is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main…therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne

Tricia Welchance (Ferreira)

Brenda Howell
Degree: B.A. from Warner Southern College
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote: “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”  Proverbs 27:17

Rae Huffman
Degree: BS English Education with a minor in Psychology from FSU
Books: A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett and Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Quote: ‘Men plan and God laughs’

Jennifer Medlock
Degrees: BS in Business Administration UCF, MBA from Webber International Univeristy
Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Quote: “The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.” ~ Jane Austen

Laura Jarrett
Degrees: A.A. in Humanities and B.A. in English from Indiana University
Quote: “The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.” T.H. White The Once and Future King

Ashley Schwarze
Degrees: B.A. in English Education from Warner Southern College, M.A. in Educational Leadership from Stetson University
Quote: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rod Shafer
Degrees: BS in English from Wayne State University, BS in English from Taylor University, MS in Educational Administration from Eastern Illinois University
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Quote: “Love people when they are alive, so you don’t have to mourn them when they are dead.”

ESE
Brook Weathersby
Michelle Castleberry
Gary Chapman

Dena Elmore
Degrees: BS in Elementary Education from Florida State University, Early Childhood from Warner Southern College
Book: A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers
Quote: “This is my work, and I can do it only because Christ’s mighty energy is at work within me.” Colossians 1:29

Sandra Erickson
Degrees: BA in Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University, MA in Management from Nazareth College, Certificate of Technology from Full Sail University
Books: Harry Potter series, Twilight series, Bluford Series
Quote: “Start out with what is right, rather than what is acceptable”  Peter Drucker

Carol Helms

Jane Jackson
Degrees: AA from Polk Community College, BS in Education from UCF
Book: A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Quote: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has” -Margaret Mead

Joann Jackson
Vickie Medlock

Marla Raulerson
Degree: B.S. in Elementary Education/ESE from UCF
Book: Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Quote: “A loving heart is the truest wisdom” Charles Dickens

Beverly Riley
Degree: BS in Special Education from University of Southern Mississippi, MS in Educational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University
Book: Take Your Best Shot
Quote: “Nothing is hard…..You just need to get an understanding of what is required!”

Tonya Royal
Degree: BA in Organizational Management from Warner Southern College
Book: The First Days of School
Quote: “If you always do what you’ve always done, You’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.”

Ellen Sullivan
Degree: BS in Business Administration from Webber International University

Kindreek Williams

Family and Consumer Science
Lisa Davis
April Langer (Perry)
Degree: BS in Family and Consumer Science Education from Ohio State University

Fine Arts
Cathy Montero-Chorus
Degree: Bachelor of Music from University of Miami
Book: Wuthering Heights
Quote: “I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony…”  Roger Cook and Roger Greenfield for Coca Cola

Meg Smith-Orchestra
Timothy Cain-Band (interim)

Foreign Languages
Lizzette Ortiz
Degree:BA + 36 MA Credits in Foreign Languages and Curriculum from University of Puerto Rico
Book: Cultural Portraits by Byron P. Palls, Ph. D.
Quote: ”If you can speak two languages, you have the power of two men” by unknown

Maria Portillo
Degrees: BA in Education from University of Zulia, MA in History of Science from University of Oklahoma, MA in Education from Virginia Tech., PhD in Educational Administration from Virginia Tech
Book: A Island Under the Sea by  Isabel Allende
Quote: “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.” Aristotle

Yomar Cardona
Degrees: BA in Secondary Education Spanish from University of Puerto Rico, MA in Public Health Education, MA Administration and Supervision in Education from Phoenix University
Book: El Alquimista by Paolo Coello
Quote: “You can always achieve your dreams, if you work for it” by Y. Cardona

JROTC
Sgt. Henry Porter
Degree:BA in History from Columbia College
Quote: “No one cares about how much you know,until they know you care about them”

Cpt. David Simpson
Degree: Electronics Management at Southern Illinois University
Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote: “Always choose the hard right over the easy wrong”

Math
Katrina Childress
Zachary Kapphan
Degree: BA in Education, Secondary Mathematics, Fairmont State College
Quote: “Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check” (M.C. Escher)

Jackie Schlein
Degrees: A.A. Indian River Community College: Paralegal and B.S. Warner University: History/Pre-Law
Books:  Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and On the Road by Jack Kerouac 
Quote: Above all else guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. (Proverbs 4:23) 

Maridith Spiller
Degree: BS Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Univ. of the Philippines
Quote: “Challenge is not an adversity, but an opportunity to show what you are made of.” by Unknown

Candice Stepp
Degree: BS-General Business Studies from Webber International University
Book: The Shack by William P. Young
Quote: “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11

Donna Weaver
Degree: BA in Mathematics from Mercer University
Book:  Gone With The Wind

David Russell
Degrees: BA in History from UCLA 2006, MA in Education from Warner University 2010
Book: Thoughts for young Men, by J.C. Ryle
Quote: “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”  
-Thomas Edison

Kristin Nelson
Degree: BA in English, concentration in Writing from Florida Southern College
Book: To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Quote: “But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.” -D.H.   Lawrence

Media Center
Aundrea Croft
Degrees: B.A. Music Ministry- Warner University, MS.Ed. Adolescent Literacy & Technology- Walden University
Book: Anything by Laurie Notaro
Quote: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -E. B. White

Nova Net
Tina Morrow – NovaNet
Degree: BA  Warner University
Book:  To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Quote:  ”Don’t forget to love yourself.”  Soren Kierkegaard

Ben Starks – NovaNet
Degree: BS from Florida Christian College
Book:  Once A Runner
Quote: “I can do no great things, just small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

Physical Education
Brinda Burrows
Degree: BA in Physical Education from Warner Southern College
Book: Mama made the Difference by T.D. Jakes
Quote: “A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.”

Mike Lee
Billy Washington

Reading
Anna Barcenas
Degrees: BS in Business Admin, Hotel Resort Management from Florida Southern College, MA Educational Leadership from Stetson University
Book: The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Quotes: “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Dee Coconato
Degree: BS from Berry College
Book: A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
Quote: “Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.”– Madeline Bridges

Kelly Cernell
Degree: BA in Elementary Education from Warner Southern College
Book: Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Quote -”One’s philosophy is not expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Yufonda Kinsler

Tina Markley
Degree: BA in Secondary Education – English and Business from East Texas Baptist University
Books: Little Women and Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World
Quote: Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cheryl Nichols
Degree: BA from Warner Southern College
Book:  My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Quote:  “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  Maya Angelou

Tammy Shields
Degree: BA in Business Administration from Warner Southern College
Book – Gone with the Wind
Quote – “It is better to have tried and failed, than to never have tried at all.”

Wendy Wolford
Degree: BA in Business Administration with Minor in Education from Warner Southern College
Book: 365 Thank Yous by John Kralik
Quotes: The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebur
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.”
“The more you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you will go.” by Dr. Seuss

Science
J Blake Fann
Degree: BS Biology from University of South Florida
Book: A Land Remembered
Quote:”Nothing shocks me, I am a scientist” ~ Indiana Jones

Mike Gerlosky
Degree: BS from Florida Southern College
Quote: “Never give in-never,never,never,nerver, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”  Winston Churchill 
Book: The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Jonathan Hodach
Degree: BS in Criminal Justice and a minor in general Education from University of North Florida
Quote: “Sharing is caring” -Hodach

Allison Kapphan
Degree: BS in Biology from Warner Southern College
Book: “A Land Remembered” Patrick D. Smith
Quote: “Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” –Angela Monet

Meghan McLeod
Degree: BA Geology, Archaeology from State University of New York at Potsdam
Book: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Quote: “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.  No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”. -Isaac Asimov

Cassie Pavy
Degrees: A.A. Liberal Arts from Polk Community College, B.S. Business Administration in Marketing from Warner Southern College
Book: Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley
Quote: “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.” Helen Keller

Lara Sharp
Degrees: BS in chemical engineering, University at Buffalo; MBA, University of Massachusetts; Certified Production Technician, CPT.
Quote: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” John F. Kennedy
Authors: Shakespeare, Stephen King, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Mary Roach

Scott Caprio- Health Science
Quote: “The only easy day was yesterday” – US Navy SEALS motto
Book: Hunting the Jackal by Billy Waugh

Social Studies
Samuel Billante
Degree: Bachelor of Educational Science from Slippery Rock University
Book: Roadwork by Stephen King
Quote: “Science has outrun spirituality; we have guided missiles and misguided men.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jennifer Keller
Degrees: B.A. Political Science from State University of New York, Cortland, M.S. Education from College of St. Rose
Book: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Quote: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.” Mark Twain

Michael Campbell
Degrees: B.S University of South Florida, M.S. from University of New Orleans
Book: Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
Quote: “Be willing to do today what others won’t do, so you can do tomorrow what they can’t do”

Bill Davis
Degree: BS from Auburn University
Book: Battlefield of the Mind
Quote: With God’s Help, Nothing is Impossible!

Cindy Nelson
Degree: BA in History
Book: A Land Remembered By: Patrick Smith
Quote: “A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.” Cicero

David Rutkas
Commander, USNR (Ret.)
Degrees: B.A.  - University of California, Berkeley, J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law
Book: Master and Commander, et seq  by Patrick O’Brian
Quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin

Matt Greiss
Degrees: B.A. Communications, Hofstra University, M.S. Secondary Social Studies Education, Hofstra University
Quote: “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”  Martin Luther King Jr.