Melissa has taught high school and elementary Spanish for many years.  She will be focused this year on Elementary Spanish.  She is looking forward to a great year with the children and helping them see the need to learn a second language.
She spent a lot of her childhood on the mission field in Iquitos, Peru, where her parents were missionaries.  She has a love for students to learn Spanish to communicate with the Spanish speaking world here and abroad.  Her husband and her are both graduates from High Point.  They have two children, one graduated from High Point, and a granddaughter that attends the academy right now.