CES welcomes new faculty

Six new teachers joined the Crestline Elementary School faculty this year.

Julia Waldrum has been teaching for three years in Atlanta, Georgia, and is pleased to join the second-grade team at Crestline. She graduated from Mountain Brook High School and received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Auburn University.

Sarah Neale Williams comes to Crestline with nine years of teaching experience.  Although she grew up in Atlanta, she received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Alabama. Following graduation, Williams lived and taught in the Birmingham area for three years. For the past six years she taught fifth grade in an Atlanta private school. She is very excited to be back in Birmingham and thrilled to teach fifth grade reading at CES. 

The CES kindergarten team welcomes two new teachers this year. Chelsey Summerrow and Katie Carter both have three years of teaching experience. Summerrow grew up in Alpharetta, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Alabama. Carter is a native of Alabama and attended Auburn University.

Elizabeth Gwaltney has been providing speech and language services to children in the Birmingham area for 16 years. She is excited to officially join the Crestline family as a full-time speech language pathologist serving both the elementary students and the preschool. Gwaltney received her bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and her master’s degree from the University of Montevallo, both in the area of communication disorders. 

Lauren Anson has been teaching for three years, and Crestline’s special education teachers are delighted to have her join their team.  Anson received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, as well as her master’s degree in early childhood special education from UAB.  She is currently working to finish her Ed.S in autism spectrum disorders at UAB and will be graduating at the end of the summer. 

     – Submitted by Mary Evans.