Who We Are

Service Learning Coaches

Service learning coaches are full time teachers who “coach” the students and educators at their school into winning service learning projects. Coaches can help individual and groups of students come up with project ideas, connect with community needs and organizations, and find resources needed for projects. The coaches also manage the Honor for Excellence in Service Learning program for the 9th – 12th graders at their school.

Faculty members are encouraged to use their school’s service learning coach to help design curriculum-based service projects or get a copy of the many resources available through the MPS Service Learning Department (and this website). Some of those resources are the List of Volunteer Sites, the Minigrant Application, books for student and teacher use related to service, and the Honor paperwork.

Because not all schools have service learning coaches, similar help is also available to anyone seeking assistance by calling the Service Learning Department at 480-472-5985 or emailing emstephe@mpsaz.org. The coaches' names below are live email links if you would like to contact them.

 

Larry Johnson & Tony Bisanz problem solve

Theresa Ratti, Pam Sarbo
& Cathy Jackson analyze Arizona Service Learning Standards

 
Erin Reed, Patti Reckell & Kathy Sandoz share ideas.


Elementa
ry Coaches

Flora Cullison Crismon 480-472-7034
Kathy Wheeler Crismon 480-472-4021
Merrilee Kupfer Field 480-472-9831
Maria Foglia Lindbergh 480-472-6263
Annie Hiteman Lindbergh 480-472-6269
Judith Wilcoxson Lindbergh 480-472-6267
Ladd Stewart Sirrine 480-472-3655
Susan Samuel Sousa 480-472-8934
Brian Hughes Sousa 480-472-8928
Jessica Nehrmeyer Stevenson 480-472-9012
Marilyn Uhl Stevenson 480-472-9022
Theone Williams Webster 480-472-4810

Junior High Coaches

Tony Bisanz Poston 480-472-2169
Netia Bodine Shepherd 480-472-1816
Katie Butler Rhodes 480-472-2279
Linda Heller Smith 480-472-4670
Cathy Jackson Powell 480-472-1064
Larry Johnson Brimhall 480-472-2594
Patti Reckell Carson 480-472-2943
Erin Reed Kino 480-472-2459
Andrea Rodgers Fremont 480-472-8250
Kathy Sandoz Mesa 480-472-1372
Pamela Sarbo Stapley 480-472-2718
Cheryl Smerekar Hendrix 480-472-3402
Lisa Thomas Taylor 480-472-1553

Senior High Coaches

Catherine Bianchi Red Mountain 480-472-8030
Peter Caruso Skyline

480-472-9493

Hope Finzer Dobson 480-472-3192
Gretchen Hombach Red Mountain 480-472-8133
Jan Laufer East Valley Academy 480-472-9357
Andrea Murphy Westwood 480-472-4642
Theresa Ratti Mesa 480-472-5743
Kerri Thorp Mountain View  480-472-7132

 

Learn & Serve sponsored a day of training for all the coaches.
Netina Bodine, Andrea Rodgers & Larry Johnson prove that training can be fun.

Strenuous brainwork
was part of the day.

 
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