Ms. Ball has taught at our Middle School since 2006. She holds an undergraduate degree in English and a Master’s degree in teaching from Mary Baldwin College.

“Passion! I adore what I do!” is how Ms. Ball describes what motivates her as a teacher.Her teaching is animated by her belief in the need for teachers to learn alongside students, and by her advocacy of lifelong learning and

Susan joins us this year as the seventh grade Language Arts teacher, and she will also teach an elective on self-governance. Although she is new to middle school teaching, she has an extensive background on which to draw, having taught for many years at high schools far and near: in Narok, Kenya; locally at Collegiate; and at the Paideia School, a progressive school in Atlanta. She is committed to the combined reading and writing workshop method, an approach she

This year we welcome Bruce to our Middle School. He is the creator of the One School, One Book program, designed to help schools support parents in reading chapter books aloud to their children at home. Prior to joining Sabot at Stony Point, Bruce directed One School, One Book, most recently through Read to Them, an organization dedicated to promoting reading to children. He has developed materials and spread One School, One Book to more than 125 schools in North America.

Meredith comes to us from Chesterfield County, where she taught Algebra I and Sixth Grade math and science. She holds a Master’s degree in Elementary Education and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies, both from James Madison University. When she is not teaching, she enjoys reading, geocaching (a treasure hunt game using a GPS), and renovating the house that she and her brother own. She looks forward to working in an environment where children’s ideas matter.

Now in his second year of teaching sixth and seventh grade mathematics at Sabot at Stony Point, Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development from Virginia Tech. His prior experience includes work at the Blacksburg New School’s K-8 constructivist program, where he did his student teaching while pursuing his degree. After leaving the Blacksburg area, Chris taught middle school math, Algebra I, and French before moving to the Science Museum of Virginia, where he taught children

Beginning this year, Kara will teach Life Science in our Middle School; she looks forward to sharing investigation, inspiration, and her lifelong passion for science with her students. Kara has spent most of her working life focused on the health and well-being of children, and she is a Registered Nurse with a Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Sabot at Stony Point, she conducted research on HIV/AIDS at the VCU Survey