NOTE: 5S Students will create a "Shoe Poster" at the start of the school year to help others know what it's like to be in their shoes. That is why I wrote facts about myself in the format below
IF YOU WERE IN MS. STARK’S SHOES, YOU WOULD...
IF YOU WERE IN MS. STARK’S SHOES, YOU WOULD...
- love your job because of the meaningful conversations, intense learning, comforting routines, funny surprises, and lifelong connections
- have been born in 1963, in San Francisco, CA
- be the only child of Suzanne Stark (1926-2015) an artist, teacher, writer and historian
- have a husband Kevin Macdonald, two sons Ethan and Zachary Macdonald (Zach just went to college!) , a dog Mango and your cat Archer (Archie) -photos below
- feel hopeful and happy after starting the KEEP Club (Kids Expect Environmental Protection)
- have lived in San Francisco, NYC, Portland (OR), Brookline. Cambridge. Toronto, the Back Bay, Jamaica Plain (and a short stint in Jamaica), and now half your house is in Brighton and half is in Brookline
- have considered becoming a writer, dancer, acupuncturist, environmental lawyer, and/or a seeing-eye dog trainer before realizing that teaching humans would be just right
- have taught a graduate school class at Brandeis University from 2005 - 2017 called, Getting Ready To Teach: Creating Clear Systems for a Collaborative and Creative Year
- be learning how to write and produce your own podcast/radio stories
- be a former long distance runner
- practice yoga around 3 times a week to stay healthy and calm and injury free
- wish time didn't go by so fast because of all you want to do
- love collecting rocks at the ocean
- wonder what 5S will do this year and what will happen with the 4th year of the KEEP Club (Kids Expect Environmental Protection) club at Driscoll for grades 5-8.