Spotlight on U
Teachers
![Simone Sowell from East Union Middle School smiles at a desk]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1783436361/unioncountyps/jjvfcwsk8nwedsl4kybb/Spotlight-Simone-Sowell-EUMS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1783436361/unioncountyps/jjvfcwsk8nwedsl4kybb/Spotlight-Simone-Sowell-EUMS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1783436361/unioncountyps/jjvfcwsk8nwedsl4kybb/Spotlight-Simone-Sowell-EUMS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Simone Sowell, a 7th grade math teacher at East Union Middle School.
![Courtney Bodenheimer smiles for a picture in the corner of her classroom.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1766508159/unioncountyps/gubnvk67sss7oexc3qow/Spotlight-Courtney-Bodenheimer-SVPS-003-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1766508159/unioncountyps/gubnvk67sss7oexc3qow/Spotlight-Courtney-Bodenheimer-SVPS-003-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1766508159/unioncountyps/gubnvk67sss7oexc3qow/Spotlight-Courtney-Bodenheimer-SVPS-003-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Courtney Bodenheimer, a BRIDGE teacher at Shiloh Valley Primary School.
![Denise Daunt, fashion teacher at Sun Valley High, smiles in front of the board.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1766498071/unioncountyps/h9kjmbzzjceewjigmtis/Spotlight-Denise-Daunt-SVHS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1766498071/unioncountyps/h9kjmbzzjceewjigmtis/Spotlight-Denise-Daunt-SVHS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1766498071/unioncountyps/h9kjmbzzjceewjigmtis/Spotlight-Denise-Daunt-SVHS-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Denise Daunt, an apparel & textiles/interior design teacher at Sun Valley High School.
Students
![Amir Alkhalayleh smiles on a bench by a window at Shiloh Valley Elementary.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1783011686/unioncountyps/svbs5rvie3nsmhowcids/Spotlight-Amir-Alkhalayleh-SVES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1783011686/unioncountyps/svbs5rvie3nsmhowcids/Spotlight-Amir-Alkhalayleh-SVES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1783011686/unioncountyps/svbs5rvie3nsmhowcids/Spotlight-Amir-Alkhalayleh-SVES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Amir Alkhalayleh, a fifth grader (rising sixth) at Shiloh Valley Elementary School.
![A young boy with spiky hair sits in a patterned armchair wearing a gray sweatshirt that says "Rock Rest Elementary," with a blue wall and part of a table visible in the background.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1780576613/unioncountyps/baczcdp7bqqpgf5q2hsu/Spotlight-Brian-Chino-RRES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1780576613/unioncountyps/baczcdp7bqqpgf5q2hsu/Spotlight-Brian-Chino-RRES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1780576613/unioncountyps/baczcdp7bqqpgf5q2hsu/Spotlight-Brian-Chino-RRES-5th-001-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Brian Chino, a fifth grader at Rock Rest Elementary School.
![Aidan Conway smiles by a window at CATA]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1778772135/unioncountyps/lml4yjmlxebduqxkdpfz/Spotlight-Aiden-Conway-CATA-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1778772135/unioncountyps/lml4yjmlxebduqxkdpfz/Spotlight-Aiden-Conway-CATA-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1778772135/unioncountyps/lml4yjmlxebduqxkdpfz/Spotlight-Aiden-Conway-CATA-004-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Aidan Conway, a senior at Central Academy of Technology & Arts.
Staff
![A smiling woman in blue scrubs and a white jacket stands in front of a building with trees and a bench in the background.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1780679513/unioncountyps/jpfmk30rhhvepk6isvj9/Spotlight-Tina-McSweeney-Nurse-MRMS-007-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1780679513/unioncountyps/jpfmk30rhhvepk6isvj9/Spotlight-Tina-McSweeney-Nurse-MRMS-007-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1780679513/unioncountyps/jpfmk30rhhvepk6isvj9/Spotlight-Tina-McSweeney-Nurse-MRMS-007-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Tina McSweeney, school nurse at Marvin Ridge Middle School.
![Lori Peyton sits on a couch in the PDC smiling.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1780597163/unioncountyps/i351h4xsxnjbrtw4juu9/Spotlight-Lori-Peyton-005-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1780597163/unioncountyps/i351h4xsxnjbrtw4juu9/Spotlight-Lori-Peyton-005-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1780597163/unioncountyps/i351h4xsxnjbrtw4juu9/Spotlight-Lori-Peyton-005-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Lori Peyton, a UCPS curriculum and instruction coordinator.
![Stephen Boone, transportation manager, smiles standing beside a bus.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1778520737/unioncountyps/p6ibyzlej8qojcosj9lv/Spotlight-Stephen-Boone-Transportation-008-Thumbnail.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1778520737/unioncountyps/p6ibyzlej8qojcosj9lv/Spotlight-Stephen-Boone-Transportation-008-Thumbnail.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1778520737/unioncountyps/p6ibyzlej8qojcosj9lv/Spotlight-Stephen-Boone-Transportation-008-Thumbnail.jpg","width":800}])
Get to know Stephen Boone, a transportation manager for the Goldmine Cluster in the UCPS Transportation Department.