CBGS CAMPUSES
GENERAL FAQ
- What qualifications do I need to teach at CBGS?
CBGS faculty must have a Virginia collegiate or postgraduate professional license, or be eligible for a provisional license. Teaching experience or its equivalency is preferred. Due to our dual enrollment program through Rappahannock Community College, CBGS faculty must also hold a master’s degree with sufficient graduate credits in the content area.
- How do I apply to work at CBGS?
Teachers interested in applying to work at CBGS can obtain an application from the Middlesex County Public Schools website (via the above link). All completed applications should also include a resume and cover letter directed to CBGS Director, Terri Perkins.
Year Appointed: 2016
Brigham Young University, Biology/Spanish – B.S.
College of William and Mary – M.Ed.
Miami University, Biology – M.A.
I have been teaching both Biology and Spanish for 18 years in both public and private schools. I have always enjoyed place-based and experiential teaching and am excited to work in a program that emphasizes both. Our watershed is an amazing lab for our students.
My favorite part of teaching is sharing my own curiosity about nature I hope to instill this same curiosity in my students. I also value the relationships I’ve built with students over the years and I love to see them grow and make the world a better place.
I love to travel with my husband and son. I grew up in Oregon and we spend time out west each summer visiting family and exploring National Parks and other wild places. Here is an excerpt from Wendell Berry’s “The Peach of Wild Things” that communicates some of what I feel about nature:
and I wake in the night at the least sound…
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
