{"id":18177,"date":"2019-03-15T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T21:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebw.tv\/?p=18177"},"modified":"2019-04-30T16:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:46:03","slug":"thumbcoast-talent-educaors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thumbcoast.tv\/thumbcoast-talent-educaors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise Of Young Talent In The Thumbcoast: Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the fifth of a 12-part series featuring young professionals in the Blue Water Area. Each month two to three individuals from different industries will be spotlighted.
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Written by Audrey Sochor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


The foundation of any great community is its educators. They enrich young minds, inspire creativity and lay the groundwork of the people who will build that community for generations to come.

For this reason<\/g> it\u2019s a vital passion of these featured young professionals to connect with and impact their students in a positive way well into the future.

\u201cI just love working with students and figuring out what helps them, what makes them tick,\u201d said Adrienne Koppinger, a Port Huron High School teacher who works with cognitively impaired students<\/g>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrienne Koppinger<\/strong>

Koppinger knew since she was a high schooler herself that she wanted to go into education and work with deaf students and others in special education.
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She went to Bethel College for her degree,<\/g> but came back to the Blue Water Area because she missed the water and her family. \u201cI love the small town of Port Huron,\u201d she said. \u201cI love that you can go to the grocery store and see people you know.\u201d
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Koppinger was fortunate enough to get her job at PHHS right after her graduation from Bethel, where she teaches science, math and life skills to special needs students in preparation for future careers.
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\u201cIn Port Huron High I work with four other teachers in the MICI program,\u201d Koppinger said. \u201cWe have different ages but it\u2019s so great to bounce ideas off of each other, like have the younger, fresher ideas, but the older, experienced ideas as well. It\u2019s so great to collaborate with everybody
and have those perspectives in education.\u201d
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She loves being at the high school because it provides other opportunities she wouldn\u2019t necessarily have in other grade levels, such as working with the tennis team or teaching sign language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But she also likes working at the high school for the support she receives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPort Huron High is such a community school and all the staff is like family,\u201d she said. The district pairs new teachers up with mentors, and teachers and administers stop by her classroom to make sure she has everything she needs or give her tips.
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\u201cIt\u2019s been so nice to have those helps<\/g> when you\u2019re trying to stay afloat and learn the career path,\u201d she added.
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The Blue Water Area also offers her a chance to grow more than just professionally, and Koppinger said others are starting to realize it as well.
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\u201cI would say that it\u2019s such a fun area, a great opportunity to grow,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a hidden gem, Port Huron is. Many leave after graduation\u2026but then it\u2019s cool to see how many people have come back and realize<\/g> they miss the small town of Port Huron.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Archer<\/strong>

Another Port Huron Schools educator who returned to the area is Marysville native Craig Archer.
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Unlike Koppinger, Archer had no idea what he wanted to do after high school, so continued his athletic career at SC4 while he figured it out. He stayed at SC4 for two years and, after deciding to study education, transferred to Concordia University in Ann Arbor.

Archer was hired by Plainwell High right out of school, which is just north of Kalamazoo. So he and his new wife made the move, which they loved and enjoyed, but they always felt the pull to return home. Four years later they did.

\u201cThe water in West Michigan is different than the water here,\u201d Archer said. \u201cMostly because<\/g> the water in west Michigan fells on top of you all the time. I wasn\u2019t living on the water in the community over there, so coming back over here and being that close to the water again was
important.\u201d

Archer became the STEAM instructional coach for Port Huron Schools, which he said has two aspects.

The instructional coach side allows him to venture into the classroom with teachers and students. He works with teachers to show them the ways things used to be and the way they are now,<\/g> and helps them work through those changes by enriching their curriculum.

\u201cThe STEAM side of it, the programming, this is just a response that Port Huron Schools recognizes the future and what our kids need as far as transportable skills,\u201d he added. \u201cBecause of that recognition, we\u2019ve made a significant investment in providing the opportunities that kids need in order to be successful not in the current world we have, but in the world that\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve trained kids to do school a certain way, and the game is gonna to change on them, and it\u2019s<\/g> gonna change on them real soon,\u201d he added.

His new role allows him to live in a community that\u2019s the right size for raising a family in a safe, healthy environment while still providing easy access to the rest of the state with the two nearby interstates.

Being there for his family is important to Archer, as his own father frequently traveled the world for work.

\u201cI remember chanting \u2018don\u2019t go to work\u2019 as a five year old<\/g>, \u2018stay home with us,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI decided I wanted to be there for my family when they are young. I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old now, and I love the fact I can go home every day and see them, to be a part of those
milestones that maybe didn\u2019t happen for my dad.\u201d

Being here lets him be family focused while also growing and developing his career.

\u201cI like young people,\u201d Archer said. \u201cI get this sense of energy from them. They very much want to conquer the world, and I want to help them do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim DeLand<\/strong>

Like Archer, Smiths Creek native Kim DeLand loves sports, which comes in handy in her role as athletic director for Yale Public Schools.

\u201cAfter graduating (college) I knew I wanted to work in a school but I wasn\u2019t a hundred percent sure how to get my foot in since I wasn\u2019t a teacher,\u201d DeLand said. \u201cIt took me about a year to figure out that path.\u201d

She got her start at SC4 playing volleyball and basketball after graduating from Marysville High in 2009. She then transferred to Michigan State and earned her degree in psychology.

\u201cWhen you grow up in a small town it can be really, really easy to want to get away,\u201d DeLand said. \u201cAnd leave, and explore and do those things. I had an opportunity to do that with college.\u201d

A year after graduating from Michigan State, she found her path and became a college advisor with the MSU College Advising Corps at Yale High, where she served for two years. DeLand\u2019s
experience as a college advisor spurred her to pursue her master\u2019s degree in school counseling from Oakland University. She\u2019ll be graduating this spring.

Although she and her husband lived in \u201cthis great hustle, bustle town of Royal Oak\u201d for four years, they found themselves travelling to Marysville every weekend, and DeLand also continued her relationship with Yale High as a volleyball coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years ago DeLand started searching for education careers here in St. Clair County when everything fell into place and she returned to Yale as the athletic director.

\u201cI had been coaching volleyball there, got to know a lot of the administers and teachers, and the families. It was really just a great fit. They\u2019ve really taken me in,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not from Yale and it can sometimes be hard to break into small towns like that, but I think that just speaks to
how welcoming they are.\u201d

DeLand wanted to work for a smaller school but not too small. Yale is big enough, but she still recognizes all the kids in the halls. \u201cYou\u2019re there for the students and if you don\u2019t know them and they don\u2019t know who you are it\u2019s
really hard to impact positive change.\u201d

DeLand\u2019s goal is to impact her students enough that when she\u2019s 90 years old, her students will recognize her in public and feel comfortable saying hey, and that she\u2019ll be able to recall their name and tidbits of their life from decades ago.

\u201cEvery time a student comes into my office, I\u2019m just hoping I\u2019m putting the seed in the ground at that point. That four years from now, five years from now, if they need something I\u2019m here for them.\u201d

Because of her past there as a college advisor and coach, she said that\u2019s already starting to happen. She\u2019d also like to see more young professionals join her in the schools.

\u201cI think it\u2019s really important to have young professionals in education because they have a lot<\/g> energy and a lot of new ideas that they can bring to the table,\u201d DeLand said. \u201cI think you could say that in any profession, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s education specific, but it\u2019s certainly true in education. To be a dynamic teacher, or counselor or whatever you\u2019re going to be in a school, it
takes some ingenuity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opportunities in local schools exist for young professionals. Archer said education is currently experiencing a shortage that DeLand said will become more pronounced as people retire. And all three of the individuals featured agree St. Clair County as a whole is a great school environment
to be a part of.

\u201cEducation is really larger than people think,\u201d Archer said. \u201cA lot of people think about teaching, and that\u2019s a wonderful field, I\u2019ve enjoyed my time in the classroom. It is absolutely rewarding when you can see a kid have those light bulb moments. But people sometimes forget about the
support that the teaching apparatus has.

\u201cThere are places you can be in education that doesn\u2019t begin in the classroom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opportunities for young professionals exist not only in the schools themselves,<\/g> but also with the collaboration across the business, nonprofit and religious communities.

DeLand received the Community Foundation\u2019s Come Home Award, which helps recent college grads pay off their student loans if they move back to the county to live and work, bringing back talent acquired elsewhere and ultimately creating a more skilled workforce.

\u201cI think it\u2019s a good way to draw people back who have that mentality of these lifestyles that I want to achieve, these jobs that I want to find, I have to leave to get them. St. Clair County is saying that no, that\u2019s not one hundred percent true.\u201d

DeLand said things have changed, and if you don\u2019t let a negative, preconceived notion of what the community has to offer<\/g> stop you from looking, you will find opportunity.

\u201cIf you\u2019re basing your decision off a mindset you had ten years ago, you\u2019re kind of missing the ball on stuff. I think the Community Foundation has done a good job of trying to market those types of things and having different kinds of community conversations that draw young people it to help spread the word about all the different programs that are available.\u201d

But as all good educators know, there is always room for improvement.

\u201cThis area we have the chamber of commerce, the groups that work to promote us, but it\u2019s not so headline grabbing<\/g>,\u201d Archer said. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s just fair to say. We need to make sure young professionals look at this area as a place to develop. There is opportunity<\/g> here, being that we sit right on the border, being that we\u2019re at the intersection of two major highways that reach across this country. It\u2019s an opportunity that if we seize it as a community we can turn this into a hub of innovation, of growth, of talent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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