Jr High Blog

Read the message below from your JH/HS Campus resource specialist, Alissa Nicholson:

As a previous elementary school student of Cascade Christian, I am honored to be serving students and families at the junior high and high school levels. I have lived in Puyallup my entire life and attended Puyallup schools. After my teaching certificate program was complete, I taught at a public elementary school in South Hill and then taught middle school at a private school in Auburn for 7 years. During my years teaching middle school, I earned my master’s degree in education with an emphasis in special education. Although I stepped away from teaching for a few years, I am delighted to be back in the school setting.

In this new position as resource specialist, I am thoroughly enjoying building relationships with our students, their families, and our school staff. As I work toward fostering relationships with our students and providing even more support to our students and staff, my hope is to build a relationship and gain the trust of the families of the students I serve, to improve their overall experiences at Cascade Christian. I look forward to using my skills to assist in educating students at their unique level of need and to ignite confidence and love for learning in our students.

I am so encouraged by this year’s spiritual theme Unshakeable. The past few years have brought many changes to my family including the loss of my mom (my best friend), the birth of our first child, moves across the state or out of it by most of our family, and job changes for myself and my husband. These many changes have really given me the opportunity to practice unshakeable faith in God and His plans for my life. I am beyond thankful that God has directed my path back to Cascade Christian Schools, and I couldn’t be more excited for what God has in store for this school year!