Jessica Adams
Special Education Assistant
Name: Jessica Adams Born in: Mount Vernon, Ohio
College attended: Lipscomb University (Bachelor's of Social Work)
Started teaching in: 2012.
Favorite thing about my job: I love building connections with our students, as well as watching them grow academically and socially!
3 things I love: Family, Outdoors, and Cooking for my boys.Favorite Quote: "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
-Harry Ward Beecher
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Cheri Angus
ELL
The kids call me: Mrs. Angus Grades I've taught: 1st, 2nd, preschool, RTI My favorite thing about teaching: Getting inspired by my students to get excited about learning. Favorite Quote: “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” Mark Twain
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Helen Bell
Speech & Language Pathologist
Name: Helen Bell Born in: Nashville, TN
College attended: Tennessee Sate University
Started teaching in: 2014.
Favorite thing about my job: One of my favorite t-shirts says, "I teach kids to talk back," & that IS my favorite thing about being a speech-language therapist here at WBES. Whether it is a child whose speech is difficult to understand, a student who has difficulty putting sentences
3 things I love: reading, animals, and coffee.
Favorite quote: " If I were to wish for anything, I would not wish for wealth and power but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young & ardent, sees the possible." - Soren Kierkegaard
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Abi Bouterse
Ancillary
Name Abigail BouterseBorn in: Kissimmee, FL
Started working with children in: 2023
Favorite thing about my job: Family
3 things I love: God, friends and animals
Favorite quote: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is Me.
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April Hirsbrunner
Name April Hirsbrunner Born in: Nashville, TN
Started teaching in: 2024.
Favorite thing about my job: Spending time with the kids and watching them learn and grow
3 things I love: Spending time with my family, shopping, and Dr. Pepper
Favorite quote: Do what you love...love what you do
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Megan Holland
Special Education Teacher
Born in: Hendersonville, TN
College attended: APSU
Started teaching in: 2023
Favorite thing about my job: I love building bonds with my kiddos.
3 things I love: MY HUSBAND, traveling, and baseball!
Favorite quote: Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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Kim Howell
Special Education Teacher
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Melissa Pappin
Name Melissa Pappin Born in: Ohio
College attended: Miller-Motte Technical College; currently attending Western Governors University
Started teaching in: Started in School Nurtition 2018 and as an ERC Teacher Assistant in 2023.
Favorite thing about my job: Helping the students and watching them learn new skills. It's very rewarding being able to watch them grow and seeing their faces light up with excitement.
3 things I love: My family, my career, and coloring/painting.
Favorite quote: You've always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." Glinda the Good Witch "There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind, the second way is to be kind, the third way is to be kind." ~Mr. Rogers
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Gwen Ragan
Speech & Language Pathologist
Born in: Dickson, Tennessee
College attended: Lipscomb University (undergrad) and Univeristy of Tennessee (graduate)
Started teaching in: 1998 Favorite thing about my job: Seeing children make progress with their communication skills.
3 things I love: books, coffee, music
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Misty Reed
Special Education Interventionist
Name: Misty Reed Born in: Gary, Indiana
College attended: Middle Tennessee State University and Austin Peay State University
Started teaching in: 2014.
Favorite thing about my job: My favorite thing is helping students learn to believe in themselves and acquire confidence.
3 things I love: I love decorating, shopping, and my family.
Favorite quote: “Believe you can and you're halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Elizabeth Roberson
Special Education Teacher
Born in: Franklin,TN
College attended: Lipscomb University and Tennessee Tech
Started teaching in: 2023
Favorite thing about my job: Working with kids
3 things I love: My kids, anything water, and dancing
Favorite quote: When the going gets tough, the tough gets going
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Merry Williams
Special Education Assistant
Name: Merry Kay Williams Born in: Nashville, Tennessee
Started teaching in: 1991.
Favorite thing about my job: I love helping kids!
3 things I love: Case, Raylie, and Colt (My 3 Grandchildren) Favorite quote: What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ( Ralph Marston )
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