Arlington High School New Teachers 2022-2023

School has always been a positive and safe place for Stephanie Altman. She wants her classroom to be a positive and safe space for students as well. Her classroom is nonjudgmental, welcoming, and patient. This is her 23rd year teaching and she teaches French. She reads, quilts, and gardens, and loves everything about French language and culture. “I had some teachers who genuinely cared about me when I was a kid. And they actually changed the course of my l...

Ms. Kelsey Fearnley has now returned back to her roots at Arlington High School. Graduating from Arlington High in 2009, Fearnley was one of the first class of students, attending while the school was still in construction. Ms. Fearnley is the new 10th Grade Guidance counselor at Arlington High School. She grew up in Arlington but left for college to go to Brigham Young University in Utah to study...

How would you feel about moving schools that doubles in size and population of the last place you worked? Our new Arlington High School Media Specialist, Nicole Hensley did just that. Mrs. Hensley spent her educational student tenure at Southwest Community College on a softball scholarship, then transferring to Union University and receiving her degree in Elementary Education and Master's Degree...

New Arlington High School Junior ROTC Instructor Colonel John Block recounts one of his craziest stories from his military career. "I was stationed in Puerto Rico for assignment, and was introduced to singer Jennifer Lopez. She was so nice, and when she thanked me for my service, she kissed me on the cheek." Laughing, Colonel Block recalls, "I remember saying, I'm never washing that cheek again." If...

As a kid, Candice McGuire hated going to school. Now, her passion is getting students to love mathematics.  "Anyone can be good at math, you just do math, any kind of math, and you can be a math person." Mrs. McGuire grew up Cordell, Oklahoma, "a one stoplight town in outside of Oklahoma City." The motto of the town is 'Go Big or Go Home.' Homecoming, she said, is a big deal, with floats and a...

Many say that teaching is all about seeing your students grow, and new Arlington High School English Teacher Jade Schlich says her passion is seeing her "students grow in creativity and literature." Ms. Jade Schlich teaches English 11 and English 12. "I love teaching juniors and seniors because I like having fun conversations about literature. Seniors and juniors can tap a little more cognitive ...