Sharing Her Love of the Arts One Step at a Time
Long before Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker fills dance studios, retail stores and just about everywhere else, one SCASD student, Chloe Snellgrove, will be preparing young dancers for their first Nutcracker ballet performance. For her senior project, Chloe has been hard at work developing a program focused on broadening participation in the arts, specifically ballet, for those who may not be able to afford it. “I have danced for 11 years and just recently stopped,” she explains. “I have such a passion for helping people and a passion for ballet, so I decided to combine them together for my senior project!”
Jill Campbell, SCASD Learning Enrichment teacher and director of the State High Thespians, is currently in her 38th year of teaching. Born and raised in Berks County, Jill graduated from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., with a double major in speech and drama and elementary education before studying child drama at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Jill joined SCASD in 1983 at Easterly Parkway before joining the Learning Enrichment Program in 1987 as an elementary program specialist.
Attitude, creativity and drive have added up to a mathematics award for Radio Park Elementary School teacher Kate Hallinger.