About Mrs. Guest-Scott
I am thrilled to continue my work at EJHS in the 2019-20 school year as an 8th grade Language Arts teacher and 8th grade team leader! My love and excitement for teaching grows each year, and I can't wait to get to school every day to help students learn, grow, explore, think, and create in innovative ways through Language Arts. In addition to my current teaching and leadership roles at EJHS, I am a 2019-2020 Teach Plus Policy Fellow. I am many things--a mother, a spouse, a daughter, a learner, an adopted Hoosier--but TEACHER is one of my most important and cherished roles. Thank you for entrusting me with your children!
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Where I'm From |
I was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where I lived, went to school, and worked until moving to Bloomington in 2002. My husband of 19 years is the Academic Coordinator at the Indiana University Student Academic Center (SAC). We live in Ellettsville with our two children, our two rescue pups, and our two crazy cats. When I am not teaching I can be found whipping up homemade concoctions in my kitchen (still using my grandmother's old wooden spoons), tackling household projects, reading, gardening, catching live music and films whenever I can, visiting my favorite restaurants, traveling, and spending time with my family.
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Professional Past |
In 15 years of teaching, I have taught a mixture of Language Arts, English, W.I.N., academic support labs, creative writing, and journalism for grades 7-12 in addition to supervising senior projects, engaging in project based learning (PBL) initiatives, and spearheading interdisciplinary connections and collaboration. I hold a bachelor's degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth University, a master's degree in English secondary education from Indiana University, and post graduate work in the area of high ability special education from Indiana State University.
I was a founding member of the Smaller Learning Communities for freshmen at Columbus East High School where I taught from 2005-2008 and was awarded a National Microsoft Innovative Teaching Award along with my teaching team in 2007; we represented the United States at the World Forum for Innovative Teaching in Helsinki, Finland the same year. I moved to Owen Valley High School in 2008. There I worked with the freshman transition program, was English department chair, secondary high ability representative, sponsored the Veteran's History Project, and co-coordinated our night school program until 2015, when I moved "home" to Edgewood Junior High School. |