School will be back in session next week, and teachers and staff at Clearview Elementary are excited and ready for the opportunities and challenges the new year will bring. Classes begin Wednesday.

 

This fall marks the first time in its history the school hasn’t offered sixth grade; Clearview became preschool through fifth grade this year. Sixth graders will be attending South Junior High in St. Cloud.

 

Clearview and their after school Kidstop program are still accepting enrollments and the school is once again holding goal setting conferences with each student and their family. Clearview began the conferences last year and found them to be so successful they decided to continue them again this year. 

 

Principal Sheri Rutar said the goal setting conferences allow parents, teachers and students to have conversations regarding each child’s individual strengths, interests, friendships and academic and social goals, and are a nice way for teachers and students to get to know each other.

 

The conferences also help give teachers a focus area to foster growth and student achievement.

 

Clearview is welcoming seven new teachers and staff to their community this fall.

 

Iacarella is Clearview’s new firstt grade Spanish immersion teacher. She was a substitute teacher for many years, and last year worked in numerous Spanish immersion classrooms in the Minnetonka  School District. 

 

Iacarella has a bachelor’s majoring in Spanish education with a minor in psychology. She has her teaching license in K-12 Spanish education and K-6 elementary education. She’s currently working on her master’s degree, which she will have completed by the end of the year.

 

Her goal for the upcoming school year is to get to know and build relationships with each of her students and to utilize different types of activities to meet students’ differing learning needs. She’s also looking forward to working and collaborating with the rest of the Clearview staff.

 

Iacarella enjoys exercising and reading, and was homeschooled until she was a junior in high school.

 

Coliman will be teaching fifth grade Spanish Immersion for Clearview. Last year she taught eigth grade Spanish and Spanish 1 and 2 at Brooklyn Center Secondary.

 

Coliman majored in Spanish and secondary education at the University of Minnesota and spent a semester abroad in Santiago, Chile. 

 

Her goal for the upcoming school year is to increase student movement in the classroom. She enjoys baking, crafting and visiting Minnesota State Parks. She and her husband are expecting their first child in December.

 

Adamson is Clearview’s new fifth grade orchestra teacher. She’s taught young string musicians in the Twin Cities and in Austin, TX; this is her third year teaching orchestra for District 742. Along with teaching, she performs with several groups in the area including the St. Cloud Symphony and Amadeus Chamber Symphony.

 

Adamson holds a bachelor’s degree in music from St. Olaf College, a master’s and teaching certificate from the University of Texas, and additional instrumental pedagogy training from the University of Minnesota.

Her goals for the upcoming school year are to help her students build and develop string playing skills along with a love of music. 

 

Brinkman is Clearview’s new health paraprofessional. She’s a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and was previously employed at CentraCare Pediatric Clinic. 

 

Her goal at Clearview is to help students have a healthy and safe school year. Brinkman is married with a 10-month old and she and her husband are expecting their second child in January. She enjoys camping, hunting and fishing and spending time with her family.

 

Also new to Clearview this year is Laura Challberg, their new intervention teacher, and Elise Kosloski, who will be teaching early childhood education. A new custodian will also be hired this fall.