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John Allinder
John Allinder has taught grades 1-7 at Summers-Knoll, and is currently teaching the 4-5 class. A magna cum laude graduate of Eastern Michigan University, John has taught in both the Ann Arbor and the Ypsilanti school systems and worked in the information management and distance education fields. John enjoys dogs, kids, music, books, travel, vegetarian cooking, and outdoor winter activities.
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Rina Caldwell
Rina teaches Spanish to all of our students. Rina is originally from Honduras, so Spanish is her native language. Rina graduated from the University of San Pedro Sula with a degree in architecture. She then worked as coordinator of the Urban and Development Department for the city of San Pedro Sula. While home schooling her two young children, Rina began teaching Spanish as a second language to various local groups, from preschool through high school, and discovered her passion for education. Rina loves spending time with her husband, two children and friends.
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Susan Carpenter
Susan Carpenter is our 2nd and 3rd grade teacher. She graduated from CMU in 1982 with an elementary education teaching degree, and started teaching 13 years ago when her son was born. Susan has since returned to graduate school at EMU and has earned her Early Childhood Endorsement. Prior to joining Summers-Knoll in 2002, she was a program director and master teacher at a well-respected preschool in Ann Arbor. Susan enjoys spending time and traveling with her husband, Doug, and son, Ray. Susan has a love for the outdoors and for growing things, both in and out of her classroom. She also enjoys making desserts and then eating them.
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Julie Cohen
Julie teaches art to our fifth- through eighth-grade students.
She has previously taught art at Emerson School and at the
Ann Arbor Art Center. Julie holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts
with a minor in Art History from the University of Michigan.
She has been an active member of the board of the Ann Arbor
Street Art Fair, The Original, since 1995, where her passion
has focused on running the Artist Demonstration program and
helping to coordinate hands-on art experiences for the audience
at the fair’s Art Zone
tent. Julie is also involved with The Growing Tree, a program
for families with chemical dependency issues, run through
Catherine McCauley Outpatient Services, and an adapted version
of this program presented in the Ann Arbor Public Schools.
When not teaching, Julie enjoys spending time with her daughter
and husband.
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Marco Garcia
Marco teaches art to our kindergarten through fourth-grade students. Marco earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in Painting and Sculpture, and a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Michigan’s School of Art and Design in Ann Arbor in Mixed Media and New Genre. He has taught drawing, painting, sculpture, and 2-D and 3-D design for the past eight years at the University of Michigan, the College for Creative Studies, the University of Toledo, Washtenaw Community College, and for the past two years at Summers-Knoll. He has exhibited his work in many national and international venues, and has received numerous awards and honors, among the most important, the Michigan Outstanding College Graduate of the Year Award in 1998, University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship in 2000, and the Emerging Artist of the Year Governor’s Award for Art and Culture from Art Serve Michigan also in the year 2000. Marco especially enjoys public sculpture commissions, and he also works in murals, and smaller scale paintings, and sculptures. Marco also creates contemporary furniture and is very interested in Interior Design. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his children, 5-year-old twins Sadie and Shaman, and his shepherd/husky mix, Lobo.
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Kim Guziel
Kim is the Business Manager. She comes to us with 15 years experience in the Banking Industry both retail and wholesale. During the last seven years of her career, Kim supervised the Funding Department, created the Monetary Collections Department and than moved on to being a Business Analyst for Interfirst. She holds a degree in Occupational Studies from Washtenaw Community College along with several other banking specific certificates. She is a unique individual in that along with business she is also a certified massage therapist. Kim loves to add to her toolbox and is now adding grant writing to her skill set. She enjoys a vast variety of hobbies, which have taken a back seat (except for guitar) to her two year old son who keeps her on her toes.
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Joanna Hastings
Joanna Hastings is the Head of School at Summers-Knoll. She was born in Kampala, Uganda, and grew up in England. Her father was the principal of a trail-blazing high school, and Joanna was raised amongst continual discussion of educational theories and practices. She studied at the University of York, where she gained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and received her Post-Graduate Certificate of Education from the University of Manchester. She has lived in France, Germany, and Sweden as well as England, and moved to the United States in 1992. Joanna has taught students of all ages in all kinds of diverse schools. She is also an ardent theatre person, and has worked professionally as an actor, director, and playwright.
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Elaine Neelands
Elaine Neelands has been teaching for more than 20 years, and she has worked at Summers-Knoll since the fall of 2003. Her undergraduate years were spent at Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan, from which she obtained a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Latin American Studies. After graduating from the U of M, she took a job working at the University of Michigan’s Children’s Center and this was the catalyst that launched her into teaching. While working at the preschool, she went back to school and received an Elementary Teaching Certificate and Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Eastern Michigan University. Elaine believes young children’s great capacity for learning should be fostered with age-appropriate, hands-on activities and experiences. When they are given a nurturing environment that takes into consideration their physical, emotional, and social needs, as well as their academic needs, they will maintain their love of learning and school. One reason Elaine enjoys working at Summers-Knoll because she has a great deal of freedom in creating a curriculum that matches the needs and interests of her students each year and on any particular day.
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Catherine Quist
Catie is the homeroom teacher for our sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. She is the newest member of the Summers-Knoll faculty and comes to us with a recent Master's Degree with secondary certification in mathematics and biology from the University Michigan School of Education as well as a Doctorate from Cornell University in Applied Mathematics. Throughout graduate school she did research in the field of bioinformatics, developing computational and statistical methods to analyze human genome data. Most of her teaching experience has been at the graduate school level at UCLA and UM, however, she has spent a year student teaching in a seventh grade life science middle school classroom. She enjoys musical theater, bicycle touring, contemporary art, dance, reading, movies, and spending time with her husband and daughter.
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Michaele Rea
Michaele is School Coordinator. She has been with Summers-Knoll
almost since our inception and has an in-depth knowledge
of both the administrative and academic workings of our school.
Michaele holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Eastern Michigan University and completed the Master’s Program
in Reading in December of 2001. Michaele is also a certified
Red Cross CPR and First Aid instructor and NASA approved
educator. Michaele began her teaching career in Arizona in
1992, where she developed an after-school science enrichment
program, and continued in Indiana prior to coming to SK.
She enjoys photography, swimming, and all places warm, and
spends much of her free time with her three active sons.
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Summers-Knoll School
2015 Manchester Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 971-7991 Fax: (734) 971-9663
e-mail: info@summers-knoll.org
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