CORE @ The Camptonville Academy

Alessandra Apsley
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love working at Camptonville Academy! Everybody at the school is genuinely dedicated to every student's success. I appreciate the fact that learning is tailored around each student's unique talents and learning style. Camptonville Academy truly offers child-centered education!

Juspreet Bains
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love teaching at CORE@TCA for many reasons, and the top 3 reasons are: 1. I am able to help families develop an education plan that fits their child's needs. 2. Core has a very friendly and welcoming environment. 3. I enjoy teaching and watching students learn and grow.

Rachel Biggs
Library Clerk

I enjoy working at CORE@TCA and being a part of personalized learning. I feel a great sense of joy when students come to school excited and ready to learn. It is great to be able to contribute to our future!

Willena Brooks
Personalized Learning Teacher

It's a delight to work here because: 1) the people I work with, 2) the students I interface with, and 3) being able to teach subjects that I am passionate about.

Sharon Chester Nevada City Admin Office
Operations Supervisor

There is a very unique reality in the community of personalized learning which encourages everyone to effectively work together for the good of the students in our schools. Being part of this energy and commitment aimed at developing successful students is contagious and of great value to me as a person. I love my involvement with a school where kids can experience learning in many different ways, and consider their futures while staying mindful of their individuality. What more could we ask for?

Angela Choate
School Secretary

I love being part of a team that supports parents and students in their pursuit of a personalized education. Since I have homeschooled my own children all the way through high school, I have seen first hand the benefits and opportunities that students are given to be educated and encouraged in the direction of their own passions.

Michelle Cota
Personalized Learning Teacher

Working at CORE is amazing. What does the student want to learn about? How does the student learn best? What ways can we take the learning to a new level? These are just a few of the ways we make each student's experience at CORE customized. I love finding creative solutions to meet students' needs and make their education valuable.

Dawn Flinn
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love working for CORE@TCA because I am able to work with individual students and families. I feel I can make a difference that way.

Randy Fukumoto
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love teaching at CORE, and in our supportive environment, students love learning at CORE. We treat each student as a unique individual by developing a program tailored to their needs.

Pat Horton Nevada City Admin Office
Business Technician

I love working for CORE. It has been a great job for me with wonderful opportunities and experiences. I enjoy coming to work each day knowing that we have such a positive and supportive staff. It's truly a great place to be.

Sherry King
Library Clerk

Personalized Learning-It doesn't get any better than this! As a homeschooling parent for the past 12 years, I have seen the beauty of personalized learning. Now as an employee of CORE @ TCA, I am able to work with wonderful children, great parents, and a caring staff with a vision and goals to help our families to successfully educate their children.

Samuel Krouse
Personalized Learning Teacher

I’ve worked at TCA since it began in 1998 and I appreciate it more each year. I believe in the Personalized Learning approach and enjoy both elements - helping parents do a better job teaching their children and personally teaching (mostly high schoolers) at the Marysville Center.

Kathy Kunde
Personalized Learning Teacher

I am all about personalized learning. The first few years of home schooling my own boys convinced me that focused academic time and focused interest's time afford an excellent, custom education. Fourteen invested years later, I believe it with zeal! Now I love helping others realize the same. The best part is that Camptonville makes it all attainable. It's nice to serve in a place where the needs and wishes of parents and children are priority.

Marla Landon
Special Education Teacher

This is my 2nd year here at CORE working as a Special Education Teacher and I must say that I do love my job! I have learned so much over this time and continue to learn each day. I love my students and enjoy helping them access their curriculum in whatever way works best for them. No two are alike and it is very satisfying when we find the way that works the best and can help parents with the instruction for their work at home.

Lois Langehaug
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love working with children and watching them explore and grasp new areas of learning.

Reid Luhman Nevada City Admin Office
Technology Coordinator

I know of no other school so committed to the use of technology in education. Using educational technology both in our centers and via the Internet adds one more dimension to the "personalized" in personalized learning. Wherever our students are, education can come to them.

Chris Mahurin
School Director

Personalized Learning is a unique model of education that honors the diversity of students and their families. Parental involvement and educational options are central, as we tailor a dynamic individual program for each student. With Personalized Learning, Homeschool/Independent Study is combined with classroom instruction, online options, tutoring, field trips, community involvement, and career/college exploration.

Nancy McLean
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love teaching at CORE because there's such a wonderful teamwork approach - parents helping parents, teachers working with families, and the community partnering with the school - all to provide the best homeschool education possible for every student.

Laura Michel
Personalized Learning Teacher

After retiring from nineteen years of public school classroom teaching, I found I just couldn't give it up. Now I am being educated by this unique and productive form of helping students learn, grow, and succeed. I do know that, every child learns in their individual way with their unique strengths. Essential CORE strategies work with their strengths, and the strengths of the families. What a marvelous place to keep on teaching!

Sally Mower
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love working for CORE@TCA because it allows me to teach center classes, as well as work with each of my students individually and help them feel successful. I believe that personalized learning is a great way for all children to reach their potential.

Joan Norton
Personalized Learning Teacher

CORE is a community of people who care deeply about meeting the needs of parents and children who want the freedom to teach and learn at home. Our shared passion is to enable parents to provide their families with an excellent education. To work with individual students and parents, to see them blossom and grow, is fulfilling a lifelong dream for me.

Ellie Palmer
Personalized Learning Teacher

I love teaching partly because it just feels good! I also look at it as a privilege that allows me to have a hand in creating a fulfilling future for my students.

Karen Quail
Special Education Teacher

As a Special Education teacher at Camptonville Academy, it is exciting to see the successes that happen when students are at the center of their own education and when parents are actively participating in the education of their children.

Traci Rasmussen Nevada City Admin Office
Student Services

I've worked with CORE since 1998 and in those years we have grown so much. Everyone is always willing to lend a helping hand to the next person. This is a school to be proud to work for and a school you can be proud to be in.

Serene Turner
Personalized Learning Teacher/School Counselor

What else would allow me to work with such a great group of students, families, and staff members and get paid for it!! I love the dynamic learning community that CORE Schools foster and I enjoy being a part of what shapes this unique educational opportunity.

Mark Yedinak
Personalized Learning Teacher

I really enjoy this school because it offers a customized education for each individual student. Parents choosing homeschooling want this for their children. Also, real relationships can be developed between teachers and families, ultimately helping students succeed in their education.