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Sara Roberts is a special needs preschool teacher at Washington Elementary. She has been teaching for 14 years, 10 of those at Washington.... Read more
Mei Asad teaches third grade at Weinberg Gifted Academy. She has been teaching for over two decades and has been in the Chandler District for eight years.
Asad has taught at other schools and even in other countries, but she calls WGA “my very favorite school.” She is proud to have helped... Read more
Laura McGrath is a resource teacher at Rose Lane Elementary. This is her first year as a resource teacher, but she has been teaching for well over a decade. McGrath has taught K–4th grades and she also previously taught a specialized inclusive class.
Mark Winans is the band director at Mountainside Middle School. He also teaches band at Anasazi Elementary and Laguna Elementary. This is Winans’ 38th year of teaching, and his 28th year teaching in Scottsdale Unified.
Winans is an Arizona native who grew up in Yuma and Casa Grande. He... Read more
Sophia Youngman teaches kindergarten at Loma Linda Elementary. She has been there four years.
Youngman is a native of the Lone Star State. She was born in Carrollton, Texas. Her mom grew up in Arizona, and Youngman moved to the Valley to be close to family, she says.
Josh Edwards has been teaching in the Chandler Unified District for a decade—he recently began his 11th year at a new school, Andersen Jr. High School. He has taught eighth grade general science, engineering, gifted mathematics and gifted science classes in the distwrict.
Amanda Goossen teaches fourth grade at Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic School. She teaches reading, language arts and social studies. Goossen loves working with her teaching partner, Angela Locher, and classroom assistants Charlene Mills and Theresa Mansour.
