Brie Sloves, the newest addition to the teaching staff at CHS, is ready to take on her first year of teaching. Sloves is a new forum leader and teaches a few English classes as part of the CHS English department, as well as taking over Emily Wilson-Tobin’s stage writing classes.
Sloves has big plans for what classes she might teach in the future.
“So currently, I’m teaching screenwriting,” Sloves said. “I foresee myself teaching more theater-based courses in the future, potentially some acting classes in the English Department.” Sloves is already jumping into CHS, ready to teach interesting classes for students to enjoy.
For her undergraduate studies, she went to Carleton College, which is located in Northfield, Minnesota, where she attained her theater and computer science degree. After that, she attended the University of Michigan for her master’s in secondary English education.
During her time at U of M, she was required to be a student teacher, and she taught at Scarlett Middle School and is now enjoying the continuation of teaching some of her students two years in a row despite it being her first year in the building.
“It was a lot of fun,” Sloves said. “And some of my students from Scarlett now go to Community. So that’s exciting.”
She heard of CHS during her time as a student teacher at Scarlett and immediately knew it was for her.
“I’ve only been living here in Ann Arbor for about a year,” Sloves said. “But as soon as I heard about Community and the structure of the school, the artsy energy, the location, I knew that this was a place that I would really want to work.”
In her few days here, Sloves has already noticed some unique things that make CHS different.
“I feel like the relationships with students and teachers at CHS don’t surprise me given CHS’s structure, but they are very unique, and I really like that,” Sloves said.
Sloves is ready to be a teacher at Community and is eager to become a forum leader; she is excited knowing she will get to experience and learn from teachers who teach in a unique way.
“I’m really excited to be a forum leader,” Sloves said. “I think that the structure of Forum having students for four years and really getting to know them is awesome.”
Sloves is ready for the rest of the first semester and looking to the second as her first teaching job starts. She is already considering what classes to teach next semester and trying to figure out what she is passionate enough to teach about. Her classes will be something to look for next semester when it comes time to pick your classes.
