Electives

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Electives Department

  • Art
  • Advanced Art
  • Advanced Band
  • Advanced Photography
  • Beginning Band
  • Beginning Orchestra
  • Business Art
  • Career Technical Education
  • French
  • Leadership
  • Math Games, Puzzles, & Logic
  • Media Production
  • Photography 
  • Psychology
  • Robotics
  • Spanish
  • Speech & Debate
  • Study Skills
  • Ukulele
  • Woodshop
  • Yearbook
  • 3-D Modeling
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Bovy, Diane
Math 8/1 ~ Spanish

College Attended: University of Arizona..go wildcats!
Years in Education: 
Favorite App: Tik Tok
Favorite Memory: AIR ROCK!

Diane-Bovy@scusd.edu
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Broderick, Rosie
Adv Core 8 ~ Core 8 ~ French

Colleges Attended: Sac State & Middlebury College
Years in Education: 5 years! I’ve taught in France and the US. 
Hobbies include: running, tennis, hiking, and listening to One Direction (best band ever)
Niche interest: movie scores and screenwriting

Rosemary-Broderick@scusd.edu
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Cortez, Cara
Art ~ Adv Art

College Attended: UC Davis
Years in Education:  9
Favorite Activities:  painting, drawing, reading, listening to music, and spending time with my family

Cara-Cortez@scusd.edu
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Eselekhomhen, Kim
Adv Core 8 ~ Core 8 ~ CTE 8

College attended: Arizona State University
Years in Education: Since 1998
Favorite Hobbies: kayaking , pottery, gardening, travel
Favorite Starbucks Drink: Caramel Macchiato, and Pumpkin Spice Latte of course! 

Kim-Eselekhomhen@scusd.edu
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Fajardo, AJ
History 8 ~ Yearbook

College attended: Sacramento State
Years in Education: Since 2013
Favorite Hobby: golf
Favorite Memory: Winning all the staff versus student games!

AJ-Fajardo@scusd.edu
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Gomez, Chris
Adv History 8 ~ Media Production

College attended: Sac State
Years in Education: 
Hobby:  GOLF! GOLF! GOLF!

Chris-Gomez@scusd.edu
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Heckey, Kyle
Woodshop ~ 3-D Modeling

College Attended: Humboldt State University
Years in Education: 
Favorite App: iMovie
Favorite Memory: During my first year at Sutter, I lined up my fourth period class for a fire drill when the city alarm rang on the last Friday of the month. The alarm occurred every month at the same time and some students were familiar with this and snickered when I was trying to get my class out of the building.

Kyle-Heckey@scusd.edu
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Martin, Loni
Math 7 ~ Math Games, Puzzles, & Logic Elective

College Attended: CSUS
Years in Education: Since 1988
Favorite Apps: Play Nine and Quordle

Loni-Martin@scusd.edu
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McKinnon, Arcolar
Adv Science 8 ~ CTE 7 ~ Robotics

Arcolar-McKinnon@scusd.edu
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Mitchell, Brian
Adv Core 8 ~ Speech & Debate

College Attended: Sac State
Years in Education: 
Hobbies include: reading, woodworking, and being with my family.

Brian-Mitchell@scusd.edu
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Ota, Melanie
Adv Core 8 ~ Leadership

melanie-ota@scusd.edu
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Robinson, Anda
ELA 8 ~ Adv ELA 8 ~ Study Skills

College Attended: UC Davis
Years in Education: 13
Favorite Hobbies: reading, traveling, walking my dogs, working out, hosting friends and family, eating good food

anda-robinson@scusd.edu
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Turner, Paula
History 8 ~ Intro Photography ~ Adv Photography

Years in Education: 23
Favorite Author: Victor Villaseñor
Favorite Sport: Boxing
Favorite Moment: Twisted Sister Air Rock!!
Favorite Food: ALL food; it’s the way to my heart❤️, but especially Mexican food, Indian food, and cupcakes from scratch

Paula-Turner@scusd.edu
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Wassum, Patricia
Beg. Band ~ Adv. Band ~ Ukulele ~ Beg. Orchestra

Colleges Attended: CSU, Sacramento (Bachelor’s); University of South Carolina (Masters)
Years in Education: 23
Favorite App: Pandora
Favorite Memory: the Miwok Music concerts:-)

Patricia-Wassum@scusd.edu
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Zarate, Andrea
Adv Core 7 ~ Leadership

Colleges Attended: Cosumnes River College, UC Davis and Sacramento State                                                                       Teaching Since 1999
Favorite Sport: Soccer – have been playing since I was 4
Favorite Starbucks Drink: Caramel Light Frappucino with a chunk of caramel at the bottom – yummy!!
Favorite Weekend Activity: Spending time with my family and watching my two sons play soccer

Andrea-Guijarno-Zarate@scusd.edu
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