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Dr. Michael Wolf, Dean of Copper Ridge Math and Science Academy, started the Academy in 2006. He was previously Executive Director for Secondary Schools in SUSD and former Superintendent for the TesseracT schools, and is currently a member of the Solutions Team for the Arizona Department of Education. Dr. Wolf enjoys travel and playing golf.
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Coach Holcomb is our P.E. coach at Copper Ridge Math
and Science Academy. Coach Holcomb teaches P.E because
he enjoys working with adolescents and students. He loves
working in a setting that he can teach sports in, a setting that
is not so confined, such as a classroom. He was born in
Hartford Connecticut, and he lived there for 23 years. He
went to school at the University of Connecticut. He first
started teaching in 1993, and has been doing this for 15
years. He came to teach at Copper Ridge because he always
wanted to work in a brand new school close to his home.
He was the first teacher to get hired here seven years ago.
He loves snowboarding & wakeboarding. He has played &
coached soccer and track. He also has two sisters. One lives
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Miss Murray was born in Phoenix but grew up in beautiful Seattle, Washington. She is a third generation Sun Devil. Miss Murray received her degree in Secondary Education (History) and minored in Political Science. She developed a passion for history and realized that it was the most “under respected” subject taught in school. Her goal for each student is to “…have them become lifelong learners, to do well in every class, and to love learning.” She has been an avid historian since her days of hosting her own radio show at the ripe age of 16. If she could teach anywhere other than CRMSA, she would teach in Italy.
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Mr. Frankel, our Science teacher, was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, with a B.S. in Natural Sciences and a concentration in Biology Education. He moved from Colorado to Phoenix almost 2 yrs ago. He enjoys the Arizona sunshine and only occasionally misses the Philadelphia/Colorado
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Mr. Alberto Newball is the new Spanish teacher. He was born in San Andres Isla, in Colombia South America. Mr. Newball is married and has 3 daughters. His oldest daughter works in Florida, his second oldest attends college and the youngest attends high school in Michigan. His wife teaches Spanish in Michigan. Mr.Newball graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Spanish. He lived and worked in Michigan since 1984. Mr. Newball has a sister who is a nurse and lives here in Phoenix with her family. He has worked in public education holding different positions in the Flint Community schools. He has taught from middle school to adult education and has even coached a few boys and girls sports teams. Mr. Newball’s hobbies are reading, traveling, spending time with his family, listening to music and playing softball. |
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Mr. Forrest is the math teacher at CRMSA. He was born and raised in Detroit, MI. His mother was a homemaker with a part-time retail position; his father was a computer programmer. Mr. Forrest has one sibling, a sister, who is married with three daughters. Mr. Forrest moved here in 1980. Except for two cousins in Phoenix, his family still lives in Detroit. Mr. Forrest graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and ASU with MAEd in Mathematics Education. He has taught in Arizona since 1980, including high school computer science, high school math, and community college math. He have one daughter who is 10 years old. Mr. Forrest’s hobbies are baseball, reading, rare CD collecting (over 900 CDs and counting), working out, computers, playing piano, biking, hiking, and skiing. |
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Mrs. Brown is the new English teacher at Copper Ridge Math and Science Academy. Mrs. Brown was born in Kansas, but grew up in Cupertino, California and Gilbert, Arizona, where she attended Highland High School. After graduating from Arizona State University with a BA in Human Communication, Mrs. Brown worked as an academic counselor at a university, and then returned to Arizona State University to complete her MEd in Curriculum and Instruction and English Education. Mrs. Brown currently lives in Gilbert with her husband and pug puppy. She loves reading, writing, photography, watching movies, and the Oregon Ducks. |
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Officer Lund was born on March 3rd in the city of
Los Angles. He had four brothers and five sisters,
since he was a kid he always wanted to be a police
officer. He went to Lake Havasu college in Northern
Arizona earned a degree in criminal justice.
When he became a police office he had to go
though three months of training at the academy and
thirteen weeks of training in the field. He enjoys
working with kids so becoming a resource officer is
a perfect fit. He has no regrets in relation to this
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