New Staff at Verrado High School

This year at Verrado high school there are many new teachers,  due to all the new home construction around Buckeye and our nearby communities. Mr. Demetruis Howard is a native of Chicago, IL, and teaches English 2 and 3. Mr. Howard has worked in Education since the year 2009, since transitioning from accounting. Throughout his years, Mr. Howard has taught almost every single grade, including taking ...

Mr. Esparza is the new Marketing teacher and head of DECA. Interested in Verrado High School because he already lived in the community, Mr. Esparza felt like now was a good time to give back. In an interview, he said, “I never felt teaching was a career I would follow growing up, but it ended up working out.”.  Before coming to Verrado, he spent twenty-two years in the United States Army. After...

The other day I had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs. Palmgren. She is one of our new counselors here at Verrado. Mrs. Palmgren stated “I came to Verrado because this is my home school. I lived in the community, my daughter graduated from here, and I have another kid whose currently a junior.” She says“ I wanted to be a part of a school district that I think is great and is doing good things....

James Marinaro is the new dance teacher has brought his experience and talent to Verrado. Marinaro, is in his 25th year in performing arts, and 11th year in teaching dance He plans on instilling confidence, and discipline in all his students from Dance 1 to Performance. …that’s always my first one, kinda tackling the idea of the need for approval… in dance, it is so subjective that not everyo...