Kathryn Adolfo
School: Central Middle School
Position: 8th Grade English Language Arts
Kathryn arrives at Evergreen Park School District 124 from Pennsylvania, where she has taught reading and language arts for the last four years. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Penn State University in 2013.
Bree Billow
School: Central Middle School
Position: 7th Grade English Language Arts
Bree arrives in Evergreen Park after working as a freshman English and reading teacher at Lockport Township High School. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was an Evans Scholar.
Sara Bledsoe
School: Central Middle School
Position: English Language Arts Teacher
Sara is taking over for a teacher on a full-year maternity leave. She has previously served as a substitute teacher in the district. Sara earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Saint Xavier University.
Jamie Cachor
School: Central Middle School
Position: 6-8th Grade English Language Arts
Jamie joins the district after eight years of teaching in the Chicago Public School District at Smyser Elementary School. She earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Eastern Illinois University in 2008 and received her master’s degree in Teacher Leadership from Concordia University in 2015.
Christina Cartwright
School: Central Middle School
Position: Interventionist
Christina comes to Evergreen Park after spending the last four school years in Lansing, Ill., where she was an eighth-grade English Language Arts teacher. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2005 and later earned master’s degrees in teaching (2011) and reading (2015) from Olivet Nazarene University.
Vanessa Dulla
School: Central Middle School
Position: 8th Grade Social Studies
Vanessa comes to Evergreen Park with experience teaching language arts and social studies in Aurora and Elmhurst. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Illinois and continues to further her education at North Central College. Vanessa has served as a volleyball and cheerleading coach, and went on a missionary trip to Honduras in 2014.
School: Central Middle School/Southwest Elementary School
Position: English as a Second Language Teacher
Katelyn joins the district after previously serving as a student teacher at the Washington Gifted Academy in Rockford. She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oregon and received a master’s degree in teaching from Northern Illinois University in 2016.
Samantha Johnson
School: Central Middle School
Position: 7th Grade Math
Samantha joins the EPSD team after previously working at the Monee Education Center in Crete-Monee District 201-U. She has received both her bachelor’s degree and her master’s in education from The Ohio State University.
Alana Lieske
School: Central Middle School
Position: Long-Term English Language Arts & Social Studies Sub
Alana, who has worked with D124 students in various capacities for several years as a substitute teacher and Extended Day assistant, completed her first semester of student teaching last fall with Kathy Smyth at Northeast School. Alana attended St. Xavier University.
Daisy Song
School: Central Middle School
Position: 6th Grade Math
Daisy comes to Evergreen Park after spending the last three years as a junior high math teacher at St. George School in Bourbonnais. She received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010 and a master’s degree from Lewis University in 2015.
Kristina Wallner
School: Central Middle School
Position: 6th Grade English Language Arts
Kristina joins the district after teaching fifth and sixth grade at Hodgkins Elementary School and The Barack Obama Learning Academy in Hazel Crest over the last two school years. She earned her bachelor’s in Elementary Education from Saint Xavier University.