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                                                First Grade

                                                Click on the teacher's picture to access his/her website.

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                                                Tara Hooper
                                                Tara Hooper graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Louisiana Tech University and is certified to teach kindergarten through eighth grade.  Tara taught third grade at Progress Elementary in East Baton Rouge Parish.  After moving back to Shreveport, she taught kindergarten and third grade at Bossier Elementary where she was selected as Teacher of the Year.  She then taught second grade at University Elementary.  She spent some time at home with her favorite girls, Janie and Mary, before teaching K4 preschool at First Presbyterian and St. Paul's Day School.   


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                                                Janet McCrevan
                                                Janet McCrevan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Montavallo in Montavallo, Alabama in 1989 where she majored in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education.  She received her Master's Degree from the University of Montavallo in 1992 in Elementary Education and Early Childhood. She has various experiences teaching kindergarten, first, and second grades in the states of Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana since 1990.  Mrs. McCrevan is married to Deverron and has one daughter. Gabrielle.  Mrs. McCrevan enjoys  spending time with her family, shopping, and traveling.


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                                                Rebecca Posey
                                                Rebecca Posey graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 2005 from Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She is certified to teach grades first though fifth and in 2009 received her Early Childhood and Kindergarten Certification. Rebecca has worked in Caddo Parish since 2005 and has been a kindergarten, second, and now first grade teacher. Rebecca has been married to her husband Stephen since 2007.  She loves to travel and spend time with her friends and family.


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                                                Faye Yates
                                                Faye Yates returned to South Highlands after teaching for eleven years in Tampa, Florida. She previously taught kindergarten for South Highlands.  While in Florida, she taught first grade for two years and then moved to fourth grade for two years. In fourth grade she and two other teachers successfully implemented the first laptop program in an elementary school. After four years in the classroom, she was asked to head the elementary library at Berkeley Preparatory School. Mrs. Yates received her education at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona and masters in reading and literacy education from LSUS and the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida