About+Us

= “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” = = -- H.E. Luccock =

**Meet the members of the Phillips Elementary School Critical Reading LPLC:**

 * Tom Piekart ** is the Phillips Elementary School science teacher. He has taught for 13 years in the MSAD 58 district. His first two years were spent at Kingfield Elementary School and last 11 have been at Phillips Elementary School. He started out as a technology integration specialist, which allowed him to team teach with many individuals around the district. He has been teaching science for the past three years. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Maine at Orono with a Bachelors degree of Science in Electrical Engineering. He spent 10 years working for Digital Equipment Corporation designing networks and communication devices before he joined the teaching profession getting his teaching certification through UMF. He is a recent graduate of Walden University with a Masters in Education specializing in technology integration in the classroom.

, Paula has served on MSAD 58's social studies think tank and was its chairman for three years. She has also been a member of the district's Learning Leaders team. She is currently a member of the Teaching American History with Biographies cohort, a program of the Maine Humanities Council. Extracurricular activities include coaching public speaking and facilitating the Afterschool Adventures Geocaching Club.
 * Paula Roy ** is currently the Phillips Elementary School social studies teacher and Student Council advisor. She has taught for 30 years, all here at Phillips, though not all at the middle level. For nearly half of that time, she taught a self-contained 5th grade class. Paula is a 1975 graduate of Mt. Abram Regional High School. She earned her Bachelor's of Science Degree in Elementary Education at the University of Maine in Farmington, graduating in 1979. She began her career in education teaching 2nd grade.


 * Maggie Nerney ** is currently the Phillips Elementary School English teacher. She has taught for 5 years in her own classroom. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Secondary English Education degree from the University of Maine at Farmington in the spring of 2004. She is currently working toward her Master of Science in Education degree at UMF and is scheduled to graduate in the spring of 2011. Maggie started in the district as a long term substitute, Ed. Tech III, and Gear Up coordinator in the Phillips Elementary School in the fall of 2004. She spent the next three years teaching English at Mount Abram High School. There she taught juniors and the AP Language and Composition course. She earned her Gifted and Talented endorsement during that period. She has been at the Phillips Elementary School for the last year and a half teaching 5th- 8th grade English. During this 2009-2010 school year, Maggie has become the director of the Girls Talk and Teen Voices program, a literacy based mentoring program for young girls, at the Phillips School.

 ***All photos were taken by Margaret Nerney and used with permission.
 * Andrea Ferrari ** is currently the MSAD 58 Reading Specialist. Andrea Ferrari has been teaching for 16 years. This year she is the district literacy coach. She earned her bachelor degree at the University of Maine at Farmington. She then went on to get her teaching certification at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado. She earned her Masters of Science in Education at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado. This year she completed her CAS in leadership at the University of Maine at Orono.