Alumni

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Riley McCord

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Riley McCord attended Sedona Charter School during her Lower Elementary and Middle School years, graduating in 2010.  From here she went on to Sedona Red Rock High School, where she was inducted into the National Honors Society and was very active in drama; she even starred in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Most memorable […]

Debra Glasberg Gail

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Learning Has No Limits Debra Glasberg Gail attended Sedona Charter School in its very early years. Her mother was one of the founding members and Debra was in the first class. Though she only had the opportunity to stay for three years before her family moved to Los Angeles, those years were incredibly formative. Debra […]

Victoria Somerville

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Creativity in Public Health Victoria Somerville attended Sedona Charter School from grade 1 through grade 8, graduating in 2005.  “I think my favorite teacher was Bob Wentsch—he was strict and gave us a good understanding of the value of boundaries.  That’s where we began learning about time management, and that skill has been so important […]

Jonathan Burgueno

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Jonathan Burgueno attended Sedona Charter School from 3rd to 8th grade, graduating in 2001—just before the school moved to its permanent campus on Kachina Drive. He remembers SCS as free-form, fostering independent learning in the context of an integrated curriculum, with frequent collaborative projects. There was always something to be working on. His teacher for […]

Hannah Lidicker

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Hannah Lidicker attended Sedona Charter School from pre-K into 8th grade, and says that her time here gave her a foundation that has helped her successfully navigate a variety of challenging educational and workplace environments. The teachers she remembers most are Colleen Fischer, who was constantly supportive, and Bob and Terri Wentsch.  “They had such […]

Jessica Guadarrama

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Jessica Guadarrama attended Sedona Charter School from its very beginning all the way through 8th grade in 2004.  The small-school community resonated with her, and to this day, she is drawn to organizations and towns that foster a close-knit community.  She has found this in her current home in Boston, MA and in her workplace, […]

Kali Gajewski

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When asked how her time at Sedona Charter School helped shape who she is today, Kali Gajewski says “I think it gave me the ability to be more creative and more self-assured.”  Kali, who attended SCS in grades 1-3 from 1995 to 1998, is now a social worker at Verde Valley Community Hospice.  Kali reports […]

Peter Hoyle

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Practice Makes Perfect Peter Hoyle Peter Hoyle attended Sedona Charter School from Kindergarten through 8th grade, with a year off when he lived in California. Now a senior at Sedona Red Rock High School (SRRHS), Peter took the most challenging classes he could and found that he particularly enjoys the physical sciences. He ran cross-country […]

Alexandra Blaney

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Documentary Film Making Alexandra Blaney Alexandra Blaney recalls her time at Sedona Charter School as creative and intellectually stimulating—which may have been a factor in her career choice: documentary film-making. Alex was in third grade when Sedona Charter School opened in 1995, and she attended our school for five years. “The teachers really emphasized creativity […]

Ted Davis

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Adventure Education Ted Davis Ted Davis was one of the first two students to attend Sedona Montessori/Sedona Charter School from preschool through 8th grade, finishing in 2003. These were the years we nicknamed SCS “school on the move.” Without a permanent home, Ted’s classroom was at different times at the Sedona Public Library, at Red […]