Mrs. Mercer is one of the technology teachers at

Brooks. She teaches Applied Technology, Video

Production, Web Design and STL. She has been

teaching at Brooks for 4 years and she has been a

teacher for 17 years! She loves teaching and learning

technology. She is currently working on her master’s

degree in Instructional Design and Technology. When

she isn’t in school she loves to hang out with her two

dogs, Cosmo and Google. She loves her students and

she really loves teaching.

She is one of the physical education teachers at

Brooks. This is her 15th year teaching, but her first

year teaching here at Brooks. She loves all the

students and teachers here at Brooks. She enjoys

working with our diverse population and our age

level of students. She said that she loves to see

kids playing sports and learning how to be

healthier. Mrs. Rhodes loves playing sports herself!

This is his first year teaching technology,

but he has been teaching at Brooks for 5

years. He is an AVID teacher and also a

technology class teacher. AVID helps

students get ready for college, AVID students

are given cornell notes to study in all their

classes. Mr. Ehert wants to help make sure

students have a good and successful life.

Mrs. Briggs is the art teacher at Brooks.

She teaches 6th through 8th grade. She says

that creating art is her personal conversation

with the world. Her vision as a children’s art

teacher is to help them find a way to

communicate through visual expression and

different mediums. She enjoys letting kids

express themselves in art. This is her

favorite subject to teach says Mrs. Briggs.

She loves teaching art and enjoys all her

students!

Mr. Schepis is one of the Physical Education

teachers at Brooks. He teaches 6th through 8th

grade. He teaches kids how to play sports and

how to be healthy. He also coaches some

sports team at Brooks. He says his favorite

sport to play is basketball because you get to

run around and have fun! He says he enjoys

teaching physical education because he gets to

teach kids how to be active and become

healthier all together.

This is Mrs. Griffin’s first year at Brooks. Choir

is offered to all grades in middle school. 6th graders

are in beginner’s choir. 7th and 8th graders are in

more advance choir and they do things they have

learned from the past .7th and 8th graders will have

multiple concerts. In the spring they will be going

to contest and compete with other schools in our

district. Last year Brooks got all 1’s at competition

( 1’s being the best) , we hope we get the same

this year. Mrs. Griffin has put her mixed choir

through hard work to prepare them for

competition.

This is Mr. Eichers first year at Brooks’s middle

school. He is our leadership instructor for the Brooks

junior reserve officer training corps-leadership program.

His to favorite words are “OORAH” “HOOAH”. We also

have a drill team; they come to some of the Brooks’s

sports event and March and do the pledge. On

Wednesday’s the students on the drill team dress up in

there uniform for extra credit.

Mr.Borst teaches middle school and high school

band. He teaches 6th, through 8th grade. 6th grade band is

beginner band and they learn the basics of everything

and they do small concerts for their families. 7th and 8th

grade bands do more advanced things and they do things

for high school. We even have a jazz band which is for 7th

and 8th grade students; they also do concerts at school

sports events. He also encourages his students to

practice a lot. He gives his students practice sheets and

grades them. He said he loves to teach band because he

loves to see students pass music!

She is a Director of orchestra at Brooks

Middle School. She is also the Assistant orchestra

Director at Southeast High School; Mrs. Hatfield

also performs regularly with the Wichita

Symphony. She loves teaching here at Brooks and

she loves teaching orchestra in general. She says

that orchestra is her favorite thing to teach! She

wouldn’t want to teach anything else!

This is Mrs. Stanton’s 3rd year teaching here

at Brooks. She graduated with her bachelor

degree from Kansas Wesleyan University and has

her master degree from Wichita state university.

She loves when she gets to see her students

enjoy acting and doing theater. She wouldn’t

teach anything else if she could teach drama.

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