Laurel Deeter

A certified dual language teacher at Townline Elementary School in Vernon Hills, IL, with a BA in Elementary Education and Spanish from Calvin College, Laurel brings strong language and teaching skills and extensive international exposure in Honduras and Latin America to the table as a first-year teacher. In addition to the six months that Laurel spent as a student in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where she lived with a host family whose daughter attended a bilingual school, she has worked as a tutor, mentor, teacher aide and teacher, giving her invaluable experience to use as a teacher at SJBS. Not only has her work and volunteer experience prepared her to be an effective teacher, her fluency in Spanish and time spent living in Honduras and Latin America will allow her to understand and communicate with her students. Laurel's passion for education is unquestionable and will certainly be a positive force at SJBS; about this she wrote, "I am confident in this: my love of education and learning."