Leadership

Shawn Stover

Current Position: Managing Director: Heights, Williams and North Hills Prep

Previous Position: Senior Director, North Hills Preparatory

Education: Master's: School Administration and Curriculum Supervision (East Carolina University)

Bachelor's: Economics (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

Favorite Quote: "When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contact: sstover@uplifteducation.org

Richard Young

Current Position: Upper School/Lead Director, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Principal, Iowa Park High School

Education: Certification: Superintendent (Midwestern State University)

Master's: Educational Administration (Texas State University),

Bachelor's: Biology and Chemistry (Texas Tech University)

Favorite Quote: "Optimize the learning, for every adult and student in this building." - Dr. Nelson Coulter

Contact: ryoung@uplifteducation.org

George Rutzen

Current Position: Middle School Director, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Dean of Students, North Hills Preparatory

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Contact: grutzen@uplifteducation.org

Becky Christensen

Current Position: Primary School Director, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Assistant Head/Director of Diversity, The Lamplighter School

Education: Bachelor's: English (University of North Texas)

Favorite Quote: "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Contact: bchristensen@uplifteducation.org

Vachon Brackett

Current Position: Middle School Dean of Students, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Upper School Director, Hampton Preparatory

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Contact: vbrackett@uplifteducation.org

Tracy Odom

Current Position: MYP Dean, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Middle Years Programme Coordinator for Westlake Academy

Education: Wayne State University, BS in English and Speech Communication

Favorite Quote: “ If there is no struggle, there is no progress”, Fredrick Douglass

Contact: todom@uplifteducation.org

Heather Pereira

Current Position: Upper School Dean of Students

Previous Position: French Teacher and FL Department Chair, North Hills Preparatory; API Project Director, Uplift Education

Education: Master of Arts in Modern Languages, UT Arlington; Bachelor of Arts in English and French, UT Arlington

Favorite Quote: "I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso

Contact: hpereira@uplifteducation.org

Angela Marcellus

Current Position: Primary SchoolDean of Students, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Principal – Rockwall ISD, Assistant Principal – Alief ISD

Education: Master of Education – Administration and Supervision, Bachelor of Science – Interdisciplinary Studies

Favorite Quote: “Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly”

Contact: amarcellus@uplifteducation.org

Dawn Burkholder

Current Position: PYP Dean, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: PYP Coordinator, North Hills Preparatory

Education: Bachelor of Science in Social Science at the University of Houston

Favorite Quote: "What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on this hills and go in seach of the one that went astray? Anf if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish." -Jesus, Matthew 18:12-14

Contact: dburkholder@uplifteducation.org

Charles Ryder

Current Position: Dean of AP & IB Diploma Programs, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: AP & IB DP Coordinator, North Hills Preparatory

Education: Bachelor of Arts, History & English double-major, University of Texas at Austin

Favorite Quote: “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; —this is knowledge.” Confucius, Analects

Contact: cryder@uplifteducation.org

Ray Chavez

Current Position: Operations Director, North Hills Preparatory

Previous Position: Global Director Learning, Development & Quality, Stream Global Services

Education: Bachelor of Sciences –Secondary Education (Oklahoma State University)

Favorite Quote: "What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contact: rchavez@uplifteducation.org

Last Modified on November 28, 2012