Rick Reed

* Actually started with Patrick McKenna's son to help to make sure he passed his Spanish course at the high school. From there, more opportunities presented themselves and Elinor and I have been pretty much teaching Spanish in the afternoons for the past 12 to 14 years.

* We started to insist upon learning sign language with Spanish about 8 years ago.

* Started teaching as a substitute on Fridays and later on every other Tuesday as Monarch had a very flexible schedule. Being certified the pay was much better too.

* I currently work at LPOSD four days a week and then come home in the afternoon to teach private Spanish classes.

* Taught levels 1 through AP Spanish. The AP level in particular required rigorous planning and choosing materials to present to the students.

* Monarch School is where I began to implement sign-language into the Spanish courses, but only lightly.

* I also taught journalism and sign language at Monarch.

* The Monarch School founder, Patrick McKenna loved the Waldorf philosophy and we did some (nice) workshops with Waldorf representatives.

• This was my first Spanish teaching job. I also taught, on short notice, English, Social Studies and US History.
• Developed some of my pedagogy at RMA, but Monarch School was better for my development.
• Developed assessments to evaluate student progress and adapt instructional strategies.