Sharpstein teachers named Staff Spotlight Employees of the Month
Dynamic Duo! Teachers and Instructional Coaches Kim Doepker and Kerri Coffman are the Staff Spotlight Employees of the Month for March. This Dynamic Duo helps teachers develop strategies for improved instruction. They specialize in reading instruction and both love working with kids, families and peers.
Kerri Coffman
Place of work: Sharpstein Elementary
Job title: Title I teacher and Instructional Coach
Years in District: 12
Birth Place: Edmonds WA
High school and College: Wenatchee High School and Eastern Washington University
Favorite food: Chicken Caesar Salad and Diet Coke (diet coke counts as a food for me!!)
Favorite Movie: Sweet Home Alabama
Favorite Band or music: country and 80’s
Favorite Book: Outlander
What do I love most about my job: seeing the joy on children’s faces as they discover new things and experience how fun learning can be.
Hobbies: snowmobiling, camping, hunting, scrapbooking
Most memorable life experience: getting married and having my 3 girls
Something that nobody else would know: One time I was a guest in my sister’s house and in being a good guest, I cleaned her kitchen for her. I mistakenly put liquid dish soap in the dishwasher instead of her liquid dishwasher soap. Her whole kitchen looked like a Lawrence Welk nightmare!
Kim Doepker
Years in district: 5 (16 total as an educator)
High School: Cheney High School
College: University of Idaho
Birthplace: Salem, Oregon
Job Title: Instructional Coordinator Grades 3-5/4th Grade Teacher
Hobbies: Knitting although I don’t know how I would like to learn, snow shoeing, snowmobiling, boating, and reading
Favorite music: I listen to all kinds from country, to 80’s rock to oldies
Favorite book: The Outlander Series
Favorite movie: Sixteen Candles
Favorite food: My appetite is huge so it’s hard to narrow. Mexican
Most Memorable moment: My one and only blind date 13 years ago when my “date” now husband came to watch me coach volleyball at Prescott High School. This date has turned into a marriage full of bliss according to my husband tee hee and three wonderful daughters.
Something others may not know about me: I mud wrestled in front of a packed house for a fund raiser in high school. I believe I won. :)
What I love/like about my job: I have the opportunity to work with both adult learners and children. I am challenged everyday to look at situations from a coach, teacher and student’s point of view. I am fortunate that my job also teaches me to look through the glasses of humility and inquiry that definitely ground and teach me something new each day.
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