Name

Subjects

Description

Education

Emily Loontjer

English

  Mrs. Loontjer is a graduate of University of Texas. Currently, she is a Language Arts TAG teacher in Canyon Vista Middle School. This is her the 7th year at Canyon Vista.
  Through past experiences with kids, students in Canyon Vista have all loved her, and enjoyed having her as their teacher. The students speak highly of her teaching skills as well.
Besides teaching, she like animals and reading, cooking and running. She is also a big Spurs fan!

B.S. in English, University of Texas at Austin

Rebecca Peters

English, Math

  Ms. Peters is teaching 3rd grade at Laurel Mountain Elementary for three years. She received her B.A in 2004. This year, she completed two masters degrees in school psychology and Curriculum and Instruction combined with Educational Administration. She was honored to win the HEB Elementary Rising Star Award for Teacher Excellence. This awards program is the largest monetary recognition program for educators in Texas and one of the largest in the nation. Please see the link for details: http://www.roundrockisd.org/index.aspx?recordid=1946&page=3400
  She love learning, and believe it is important to motivate each student to reach his or her potential. Reading and Writing are two of her favorite topics to teach.

B.A in English

M.S. in school psychology and in Curriculum and Instruction with Educational Administration

John Jung

SAT Reading, Writing

  John is a graduate of University of Texas with a BS in Radio-Television-File. he has been training and teaching for test preparation for more than 5 years. he has extensive experiences on teaching SAT tests. He also has working to train test prep teachers and create curriculums for test prep courses.
  John is working for ACES as a substitute teacher. Students speak highly of his teaching skills.

B.S. in Radio-Television-File, University of Texas at Austin

Yuki Miyamoto

SAT Reading,Writing

  Yuki has over 8 years of experience teaching writing and language arts to high school, jr. high school and elementary school students. Knowledgeable of scoring requirements and development of essays for college entrance examinations and successful reading comprehension and vocabulary development strategies. In addition to teaching, Yuki works as the supervisor for Research and Planning at the City of Austin, Austin Police Department. She holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Yuki's hobbies include running, editing of children's books, and she enjoys spending most of her free time with her husband Jose and 2 year old son Ichiro.

M.S. Public Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Texas

Jessica Ross

SAT Reading, Writing,Math

 Jessica graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Kinesiology. She completed her M.A. in Science Education from the University of Houston, Texas. Jessica Ross is a 4th year science teacher and teaches high school in the greater Austin Ares. She has tutored students individually and in classes for the SAT and the ACT, using her experience from employment with Huntington Learning Centers. She has had success with first time test takers, students who want to improve their previous scores and students who were successuful, but want to get those final few points. She is a firm believer in knowing your test and its vocabulary will help bring about success on testing day.

B.A. Kinesiology, University of Texas at Austin

M.S. Science Education, University of Houston, Texas

Chris Thiele

Speech/debate

Chris is a graduate of university of Texas at Austin with dual Econ/Gov Degrees. Chris is experienced in debate as a competitor, coach, and curriculum designer. He has over 11 years of experience in competitive forensics. 
As a coach, He currently employed at UT Austin Debate team. He coached teams to elimination rounds of national debate tournaments. He has five years experience working in summer speech and debate camps at the University of Texas National Institute of Forensics to help students improve at public speaking and argumentation.  
As a competitor, Chris was a successful college and high school debater ( Elimination Rounds at National Tournaments over 20 times, 2003-2008) and excellent public speaker ( twice a "Top 20"  speaker in the Nation for college Debate).

B.A in Economics and Government, University of Texas at Austin