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English and Reading Mathematics

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
READING DEPARTMENT

.Ms. Joyce Pfister, ITL

Biography
Joyce Pfister graduated from the Howard County Public School System after which, she earned a B.A. from UMBC and a M.L.A.
from Johns Hopkins University.
She is a veteran of multiple
courses, institutes, seminars, and workshops. A resident for the past 28 years of the Kings Contrivance community, she has spent the past 36 years in Howard County as an English teacher with the last 27 years as English ITL at Hammond High School. Ms. Pfister is wife to John Pfister, a retired high school teacher and parent to a Hammond High School graduate. Ms. Pfister enjoys traveling, is an avid reader, life-long lover of learning, and is currently enjoying being a grandparent.

Reading Department Overview/Faculty

English Department Overview
English language arts is one of the humanities. Through the English language arts, human beings use language to communicate, to create, and to comprehend experience. An English language arts program integrates reading, writing, speaking, listening, language, and literature. Through writing and speaking, students compose language to express, to create, and to learn. Through reading and listening, students interpret language to derive meaning, to stimulate thought and feelings, and to learn. By studying language and literature, students trace the origins of these content areas in the past, study their development in the present, and appreciate the variety and change that keep language and literature alive, flexible, and adaptable.

English Department Faculty
Ms. Joyce Pfister, ITL lMr. Donald Chiarella
Ms. Laura Henry    l    Ms. Tracey Lerer
Ms. Leslie O'Connor   Ms. Lee Ann Read
Ms. Liz Stocklin       jj lMs. Eileen Stone
Ms. Barbara Tindall r Ms. Jeanine Venturella
Ms. Mary Wardell    l  Ms. Danielle Wojcik

Ms. Pfister

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READING DEPARTMENT

Reading Department Overview
The Reading Acceleration Program (RAP) emphasizes instructional strategies that will accelerate reading growth. The Academy of Reading, a computer-based
training program, provides individualized instruction to students in phonemic awareness, decoding, and reading comprehension. In addition, teacher-directed instruction and activities address the essential curriculum in a small group
setting.

Reading Department Faculty
Ms. Molly Young

MATHEMATICS
DEPARTMENT

Ms. Janet L. Cavalier, ITL

Biography
Ms. Cavalier was born in
Philadelphia, PA, and graduated
from Upper Darby High School
in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
She earned a Bachelor's degree in
Mathematics from Bloomsburg
University in Bloomsburg, PA
and earned a Master's degree in
Computers in Education from
Shenandoah University in
Winchester, VA.

The 2008-09 school year will be
Ms. Cavalier's 25th as a high
school math teacher. It will be her
8th year at Hammond and her 4th
year as Instructional Team Leader
of the Mathematics Department.

Ms. Cavalier has been married
for 25 years to Mark, a Power
Trader at Constellation; they
have no children, but have 4
loving cats.

Ms. Cavalier is an avid baseball
fan and die-hard Phillies fan,
power walker, and a political
news show junkie. She loves the
beach and all things related to
the seashore, loves doing math
puzzles and brain- teasers, and
is a power shopper.

Mathematics Department Faculty

Mathematics Department Overview
The Secondary Mathematics program is
built upon the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles and Standards
for School Mathematics and the Maryland Mathematics Voluntary State Curriculum
and Core Learning Goals.

It incorporates problem solving, communications, connections, and
reasoning to deliver traditional and nontraditional mathematics skills in kindergarten through twelfth grade. It also forms a framework enabling students to successfully apply mathematics in real life situations and testing (such as the Mary-
land School Assessments and the Algebra/ Data Analysis High School Assessment).

Mathematics Department Faculty
Ms. Janet Cavalier, ITL

Mr. Richard Ardinger
Mr. Stan Arnold
Mr. Matthew Daniello

Ms. Andrea Dickie
Ms. Susan Fukushima
Ms. Aida Jones
Mr. Omri Kagan
Ms. Kathi Livas

Ms. Michelle Moore

Ms. Amy Nestor
Ms. Joan Niland
Ms. Laura Stevens
Ms. Sherry Triman, Instructional
Support Teacher

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Ms. Cavalier

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