Meet the newest faces at the front of the room
This year Wakefield welcomes 14 new staff members. Keep reading to find out more than just what they teach!
KERI BREWER, Career Technical Education Department
Q: What do you teach? A: Business and Marketing. This semester it’s entrepreneurship and Microsoft word and PowerPoint honors. Q: What are you liking about Wakefield so far? A: The friendliness of the staff and the students, and the overall welcoming environment. Q: What does your typical workday look like? A: I am here at 6:45 am, and with my students through first block. S...
JOSH CYR, Social Studies Department
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield High School? A: I’m a World History teacher and hopefully I'll be an advisor for the pride club soon. Q: What did you do before teaching at Wakefield? A: I graduated with my master's degree from Wright State in Ohio in the spring of 2020. I moved down here and was a substitute teacher throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Q: What made you ...
KENNETH DOYLE, Earth Science Teacher
Q: How long have you been teaching? A: This is my first year of teaching. Q: What do you teach here at Wakefield High School? A: Before coming to Wakefield I was at UNC-Chapel Hill getting my Masters in Education. Before that, I was doing physical therapy. Q: What made you want to become a science teacher? A: I noticed while working in physical therapy that I liked interac...
BOBBY McFARLAND, Music Department
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield High School? A: This is my first year as the band and orchestra director here. So, I’m in charge of the concert band, marching band, orchestra, color guard, percussion orchestra ensemble, pep band and things of that nature. Q: What did you do before teaching at Wakefield? A: Before I was here I taught for the past ten years in Johnston County, ta...
CAROL MEEKS, Special Populations Extended Standards
Q: What do you teach? A: Special populations extended standards Q: What do you like about this job? A: I love working with the students in the classroom. I love watching them grow as individuals. Q: What are the pros of teaching in person? A: Face-to-face interaction for sure. Being able to establish that relationship with your students and the other people that you work with. Q: ...
TAYLOR RATCLIFFE, Founding Principles USA & NC Civic Literacy
Q: What do you teach? A: Civics Q: What made you want to teach civics? A: I came into Wakefield High School, and we weren’t necessarily sure what subject I would go into. I landed in civics which I’m very happy about because it teaches students how to become active citizens and the importance of voting, and going out and participating in the government. I’ve seen that espe...
TIANA REID, Dean of Students/Counseling Department
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield High School? A: I am the dean of students, I do carry a caseload, but I am over student services. My caseload is not quite as big; I do the students that are in virtual, I do mid-year grads, and right now I am filling for our counselor that is not here, but she will be here in October. Q: What are you liking about wakefield so far? A: I was at w...
TREVER SCHOCK, PE Teacher
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield? A: I am a PE teacher. I teach healthful living and a few different electives for PE as well. Q: What made you decide to start teaching? A: I am a Wakefield graduate and I had a great experience when I was here. I have always wanted to be a teacher, it just kind of meshed and worked out that way. The opportunity to work here just worke...
HAYDEN SCHUG, Horticulture / Animal Science
Q: What do you teach? A: Horticulture and animal science Q: What do you like about horticulture and animal science? A: I love plants. I grew up working at a greenhouse so I’ve always wanted to do something with plants. I grew up around animals. Most of the animals at the school I’ve either helped get, or donated to the school. Q: What college did you go to? A: Wake Technical Coll...
KYLE SHIELDS, SPED/BST Department
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield High School? A: I am a behavioral support teacher; we work on teaching social skills and working with people on individualized behavior plans, and helping them accommodate their goals with more specified instruction. I am also the assistant baseball coach for the varsity baseball team. Q: What are you liking about Wakefield so far? A: This is ...
NADIA THOMAS, Special Programs Department Chair
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield High School? A: I’m the department chair for special programs. I help coordinate the department and I’m also a case manager. Q: What did you do before teaching at Wakefield? A: Before this school, I was an EC facilitator. So basically I did the same thing, I coordinated multiple different schools and I helped coordinate the special education...
LISA TWITTY, SPED/ICR/CCR
Q: How long have you been teaching? A: I started subbing in 1985 through 1991 and jumped back in in 2007 - 2021 and taught art and substituted. Q: What do you teach here at Wakefield High School? A: I am teaching ICR, a co-teacher position, and the content is math. Q: What made you want to become a math or art teacher? A: I didn’t dream of being a teacher but I had art ski...
EMILY VASSALLO, English Teacher
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield? A: I am an English teacher. I have one class of English 4, seniors, and I have two classes of English I, freshmen. Q: What brought you to Wakefield? A: I was born and raised on Long Island in New York. It’s a beautiful place to live but it’s also very crowded and expensive. There are not many job opportunities there so I said, “You know what...
NOAH WILLIAMS, Math Teacher
Q: What do you do here at Wakefield? A: I teach foundations of math. Other than that, I don’t really have any additional duties yet, I’m just still getting settled into the new school. Q: What brought you to Wakefield? A: I lived in South West Virginia, a small farm community. I was looking for a change, so I started looking at different cities. The arts and culture of Rale...
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