Administration
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I am very excited to be joining the Archway North Phoenix staff after having been a Great Hearts parent for the past 7 years. After graduating with a degree in Child Development from Cal State University Northridge, I completed my California credential work in elementary education and began my career in El Segundo, California as a teacher in an early intervention literacy based program. Upon moving to Arizona I became a lead teacher at a preschool in
Kelli Dunn was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington. She attended Seattle University on a basketball scholarship majoring in English. Kelli has lived in Arizona for 15 years and likes to escape the heat by heading back to her hometown (Bellingham, WA) While she is in WA, she spends time with her family and friends, builds sandcastles, swims, walks and explores new towns unseen before. Kelli’s passions are her family, animals, crafting, reading, shopping, and exploring. Her daughter Isabella attends Great Hearts and is in 4th grade. Kelli feels blessed to be able to serve now not only the students (previously she was in 1st grade) but all of our wonderful ANP families and staff. BTW- she has the cutest pig named Bacon. 
Katie Del Duca was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. She attended Ironwood High School and NAU. She and her husband Jeff have been married for 20 years and have four children. Her family has loved being a part of the North Phoenix Great Hearts community for 13 years. Katie was a stay home mom for 16 years and is now in her 3rd year working at ANP.
Jackie Curtis is originally from Ogden Utah. Her background includes fifteen years of experience in retail management and operations; working if the various fields as a key part of the management team overseeing high-level HR duties, such as attracting talent and setting training standards and hiring procedures. She was also in charge of analyzing and improving organizational processes, and work to improve quality, productivity and efficiency. Jackie joined the development team as the Academy Giving Manager at North Phoenix in February 2018; enjoying the interactions she has with the students, parents, faculty and loves serving the Great Hearts North Phoenix community. When she is not at work, Jackie enjoys spending time with her family. They have a daughter finishing up her junior year at Prep and when she graduates with the class of 2020, their son will start kindergarten at Archway as one of the newest Argonauts.
Coach Page began serving as the Athletic Director for Great Hearts North Phoenix during the 2016-2017 school year. He is passionate about seeing young men and women grow as individuals, as students, and as athletes as they participate in the NPX Athletics Program. Prior to taking this job, he was working and living overseas for 17 years – seven years in Turkey and ten years in the United Arab Emirates.
My name is Colleen Sulzer, the new school counselor with Archway North Phoenix. I am originally from the mid-west and have lived in Arizona for 30+ years. My family and I moved to Arizona when I was still in high school. Afterwards, I attended Northern Arizona University where I studied anthropology and biology. After some time, I returned to school to further my education. I attended University of Phoenix, where I graduated with a MA in educational counseling. I held a school counseling position at the same school for 13 years and loved every part of it. However, I was curious to try mental health counseling. I worked at a behavioral health service program for almost 5 years. Even though I loved my job, and working with my clients and their families, I was missing the school environment. So, here I am ready to work with the Great Hearts faculty, students, and their families. I would like to share with you the difference between school counseling and community counseling.The school counselor’s role is to assist the children, families, and faculty, but within the boundaries of the child’s behavior and how those behaviors affect their learning at school. The school counselor is also a wealth of knowledge regarding outside resources to assist children and families with any issues that may arise. I look forward to meeting and working with the Great Hearts students, families, and faculty.
Lead Teachers
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Nicole Perez was raised in Yuma, AZ. She attended the University of Arizona where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art. During college, she tutored fellow students in English and taught art and life skills to adults with developmental disabilities. After college, she worked for the Yuma County Library District; first as a library assistant and later as the Program Coordinator for adults.
Ms. Refermat is a Great Hearts Alum that was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. She attended Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and another in Business Management. During her undergraduate career, she studied abroad in Manchester, England for a semester. Her curiosity about other cultures and love for travel led her to teach abroad in Seoul, South Korea after graduation. In Seoul, Gianessa enjoyed teaching pre-school, first, second, third, and fourth grade students. Now that she’s back home in Arizona, she is excited to continue her teaching career at Archway North Phoenix. Long before she taught abroad, she had a love for reading, learning, and helping others do both! When she’s not working, she’s reading, writing, hiking, going to art museums, and planning her next trip!
Gidgett Herrier was born in Augusta, Georgia but spent the first decade of her life on various military bases as her father was a fighter pilot in the United Stares Air Force. Arizona was her families last stop and has remained her home. Gidgett has a BS from the University of Arizona and an MBA from Arizona State University. Prior to starting a family, Gidgett was in sales and consulting for the pharmaceutical industry. She and her husband have two children at Archway North Phoenix, the oldest entering the 6th grade and the youngest entering 2nd grade. After years of volunteering at school and being active in the PSO, Gidgett decided to take a more permanent role helping out at the school as the lunch coordinator. Being able to interact daily with ANP faculty and scholars has been a wonderful experience for her and she looks forward to the new year.
Cassidy Jones received her B.S. in Psychology with an emphasis in Forensic Psychology in 2022 from Grand Canyon University. During her undergraduate studies, Ms. Jones served for two years on Local Outreach leadership that designed events and activities for children and adults with special needs. Originally from Salem, Oregon, Ms. Jones came to Arizona in 2019. She enjoys the lack of rain and freezing temperatures. Ms. Jones chose to begin a career in education after finding a love for children through years of tutoring and nannying. Outside the classroom, Ms. Jones is an avid coffee shop enthusiast. Her current favorite is The Daily Drip! Ms. Jones also loves cooking, music, and card games.
I grew up in Scottsdale and moved to Los Angeles ten years ago, where I had the privilege to nanny for some amazing families! As a nanny I learned about the development and care for children. This Summer, I moved back to pursue a career in teaching after graduating in 2022 from GCU with a B.A. in History. I am currently in Scottsdale Community College’s post-bachelorette teaching certification program. Outside of the classroom, I love to run, read, and spend time with loved ones.
Christina Daab is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. She attended the University of Phoenix where she earned her Bachelors in Business Management. After 25 years in retail management, she decided to follow her dreams of teaching. She has her Associates in Elementary Education. She taught at her church’s preschool and was excited to join the ANP family. Her husband is a seventeen year Marine Corp vet, and their daughter is continuing her education with Great Hearts as a 4th grader. Ms. Daab loves working with all children, and enjoys being outdoors and swimming with her daughter in their pool.
Ms. Toni Noffz was born and raised in Scottsdale Arizona. She received her bachelor’s in education in May of 2006. She have recently started back to school to get her Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction. Ms. Noffz has taught 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade. She has been married to her husband Dennis for 30 years. He owns MAACO in Prescott Arizona. They have two children Sheelah 27 years old. Sheelah owns her own business of interior design, remodeling, and home staging with her boyfriend in Prescott Arizona. Zabrina 26 years old married and lives in Phoenix. Zabrina is a high school teacher at North Pointe Preparatory Academy. Her family enjoys camping, boating, and motorcycling riding together. If she is not home in the summertime, She is at their house in Prescott enjoying the cool mountain air.
Apprentice Teacher
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Ms. Ernest joined the North Phoenix Great Hearts academy in 2021 after leaving the healthcare field to return to teaching. Before coming to Great Hearts, Ms. Ernest spent several years teaching in an early education setting, sharing her passion for helping young children grow into the best and healthiest version of themselves. Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Ms. Ernest has lived in the greater Phoenix area for 13 years with her husband and three daughters. Additionally, Ms. Ernest earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Liberty University, and in her free time she enjoys hiking the outdoors and traveling with her family.
Ms. Tibke is excited to be a part of the Archway North Phoenix community. She has a heart for children of all ages. She believes children truly are the future and sees the value and importance of nurturing their minds and hearts to help them become the best version of themselves possible. Our children will one day be the foundation that holds our society together. She has a son at ANP who she loves to spend time with. She loves to read, hike and spend time with her friends and family.
I recently graduated from NAU with a BA in Communication Studies and Spanish. I have enjoyed volunteering with the kid’s ministry and VBS at my church. I feel honored to be joining a school full of such unity and love for one another. I look forward to getting to know everyone the rest of this year as a TA in pursuit of a career in teaching Spanish. Fun facts about me: I’m an Arizona native, enjoy being active, hiking, board games, playing guitar and painting with watercolor.
My name is Jennifer Scaggs. I am an Ohio native and graduate of Hampton University (Hampton, VA) with a B.A. in Media Arts/Journalism. Years later, in 1994, I was transplanted to AZ and was fortunate to be able to take my love of communicating from being a publicist to being a highly qualified elementary teacher in the classroom. That was in 2009 and I have loved it ever since! As the mother of four and blessed with seven grandchildren — ages 3 to 17 — my teacher’s voice has gotten a great workout within my family. It is such an honor, now, to use that loving skill as part of the Great Hearts ANP family.
Special Subjects
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Mrs. Berger is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. She headed south to warmer weather in Dallas, TX to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University. After working in health club management, Mrs. Berger changed her career focus to teaching. After twelve years as a classroom teacher in a Phoenix charter school, Mrs. Berger found her way to Great Hearts joining the inaugural team at Archway North Phoenix in 2012. She moved from a classroom lead teacher position to teaching Art and has relished this opportunity as a new way to reach young hearts and minds.
Eternity Hamilton was born and raised in Fountain Hills, Arizona. She graduated from Arizona State University with a BM in Music Therapy. Eternity did a full time internship as part of her degree at Brookdale Hospice and gained experience using music to heal the hearts, bodies, and minds of Phoenix’s senior population. She came to Archway North Phoenix in December 2018 and has loved teaching students music ever since. She enjoys spending time with her husband Logan Hamilton who also teacher at ANP, playing guitar, learning to use her slow cooker, and having game nights with her friends and family.
Justin Norris has a passion for health and wellness, and received his Bachelor of Science in Nutrition from Arizona State University. He enjoys sports, running, hiking, and traveling to new places. Coach Norris has family throughout Germany, and hopes to one day be able to speak the language fluently and travel there as often as possible. Coach Norris hopes to share his enthusiasm for physical activity with his students, and show them being active is fun and also very rewarding.
Exceptional Student Services
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Mr. Sneed was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He and his family moved to Arizona in 2001. While attending Webster University, Mr. Sneed earned a BA in Legal Studies and a paralegal certification. He is currently enrolled in Rio Salado’s Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Education program for Special Education. This will be Mr. Sneed’s seventh year teaching at Archway North Phoenix; he spent four years teaching 3
Ms. Macaluso graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1992 with a B.S. in Elementary Education. Although she felt the passion of relating to elementary school aged children during her student teaching which had followed her graduation, she felt a draw toward a young student in the class that had a severe speech impairment and had grown very close. After student teaching came to a close, Ms. Macaluso decided that she had found her calling and began teaching full-time at Saguaro Behavioral Health Center for Exceptional Education. This was a much smaller class which included both learning disabled and special needs students. Ms. Macaluso thrived in this environment. Although at the time she could not see it, she does believe that this experience with these wonderful students was given to her in preparation for what was to come later in her life as she would soon understand. Today she is a proud mother of two beautiful daughters-one with autism (this is the event she referred to being prepared for earlier). This brings her interest in children and their education and well-being to a whole new level as you might imagine. This is what led her to Great Hearts. Having the desire to continue with this path, I am happy to be a part of the ESS team here at Archway North Phoenix.
Sierra Hill was born and raised in Cave Creek, Arizona. Arizona has always been her home. She grew up living right next door to her grandparents who had 7 horses. Her grandpa taught her how to ride at a young age. She worked for an Arabian horse trainer named Dede Bisch for 5 years starting her junior year of high school. She traveled with her to horse shows, helping with grooming/training and eventually started giving riding lessons to children and adults. This is where her love of working with children began. In 2019, she earned her BA in speech language pathology from NAU. After college, she completed her clinical interaction hours at a speech therapy outpatient clinic in Glendale to earn her license as a Speech Language Pathology Assistant. She got hired at that same clinic not long after getting her license and she worked there as a speech language pathology assistant for 8 months. During that time, she gained experience working with children ages 2-17 with developmental disorders and delayed receptive/expressive language skills. She always wanted to work in the school setting and got hired in the summer of 2020 to work with a contracted company who worked with the Great Hearts schools. She started working at Great Hearts North Phoenix as a full-time contracted speech language pathology assistant in the beginning of the 2020-21 school year. She left the contracted company at the end of the 2022-23 school year and got hired to work directly for Great Hearts North Phoenix for the 2023-24 school year. She currently provides speech services on both Archway and Preparatory campuses from Kindergarten to 12th grade. In her free time, she enjoys walking her dog, hiking, staying active in the gym, horseback riding, reading and spending time with family and friends.
Erin Rushing grew up in the tiny town of Edgemont, South Dakota. She attended New Mexico State University where she earned a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Economics. After working in banking for three years, she became a homemaker and raised her 4 children for the next 21 years. She has homeschooled her children for 9 years and has been a Kindergarten teacher with ANP for 3 years. She has two daughters attending North Phoenix Prep. Ms. Rushing is thrilled to share her love of literature and picture books with her students. Reading aloud with her own children is one of her favorite hobbies. She also enjoys caring for her houseplants, sewing, and crafting, and a quiet evening at home with a good book or movie.
Katy Kwan has spent most of her life in Arizona. She graduating from NAU with a bachelors degree in Social Work and received her masters degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA. She has been with ANP since 2014 and has spent most of that time teaching fifth grade. When not working with Singapore Math manipulatives she and her husband have a food truck which keeps them both busy. They love to travel and explore as well as spend quality time arguing over tv and movie plots. They have recently added another pup to their family so please excuse any missed dog hair. 
Joyce Bebow was born and raised near Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University with a B.S. degree in Elementary Education. After moving to Arizona her first teaching job was in the Glendale School District. Then she met her husband and had two children. Her love for her family and her passion for learning came together as she homeschooled her children. Her understanding and knowledge as well as love for classical education grew as she taught for many years at Valley Classical Christian School in a first grade class as well as in a first and second grade combination class. In joining the Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix team for its inaugural year in 2012 she kept her enthusiasm for learning and her delight in teaching children flourishing. She is looking forward to many more years teaching young scholars at the new campus of Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix.Athenaeum
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