Stephanie Menefee:  

Life After graduating from GW in 1995, I came up to Tacoma, WA where I attended the University of Puget Sound for both my undergrad and grad school programs, graduating in 1999 with my bachelor's (Music Ed) and in 2000 with my master's (Master of Arts in Teaching)degrees. I got my first teaching job in the Tac Public Schools in Sept of 2000 and have been a music teacher for the last four years. I love my work. For the last two years, and continuing this year, I am teaching music in a public Montessori school. We have children in PreK-6th grade this year. Over the next two years, thanks to a massive grant from the (Bill and Melinda - think Microsoft) Gates Foundation we will be expanding to include students in grades 7 and 8 and hopefully also expanding down to include 3-year-olds. It's very exciting and I love the kids at school. The Montessori method is also a great method - turns out I'm a Montessorian and never knew it! In June of 2000 I met my husband and we were married in July of 2002. We found out during the summer of 2004 that we were expecting our first child around the beginning of April 2005. We were very excited! Sadly, at 15 weeks, I had a miscarriage while we were attending a family wedding in Vegas. We found out last February (day before Valentine's Day) that we were expecting again. Owen joined us, a week early, on October 12, a year and a day after I lost my first little boy. He is an absolute joy - he only cries when he needs something, he wakes us up once or twice during the night to be fed (at two weeks old!) and loves to be held. School I attented Samuels Elementary School in Denver, CO for Kdg, 4th, and 5th grades. For 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades I was bussed across town to Cheltenham Elementary. I again was bussed to Cole Middle School for 6th-8th grades. For high school, I was a part of the International Baccalarueate (I used to know how to spell this...) Program at GW (aka George!) in Denver, graduating in 1995. Following graduation, I attended the Uni...Expand for more