NCCS WELCOMES NEW FACULTY, STAFF
New Canaan Country School welcomes several new faculty and staff members this year. In addition, 16 new apprentice teachers have joined the community.
“We have attracted a very talented group of educators with an impressive array of professional experiences who are passionate about children’s growth and development,” said Head of School Aaron Cooper, who also joined the school in July.
Andrew Bevan is a fifthgrade homeroom teacher at the middle school. Bevan has a master’s degree in education from Bank Street College and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Colgate University. Bevan was a fourth-grade teacher at The Collegiate School in New York, and prior to that a fourth-grade teacher at The Town School.
Nora Goddard is the new school counselor and will primarily serve grades five through nine. Most recently, Goddard was director of admissions and Next Schools guidance counselor at The Advent School, an independent pre-K through sixth-grade school in Boston. Goddard has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hamilton College and a master’s degree in school counseling of education from Boston College.
Katie Jin teaches Mandarin. She most recently taught at the Huaxia Chinese School of Greater New York in White Plains and the Connecticut Chinese Association in Norwalk.
Christie Lundquist returns to the Country School to teach French and Spanish after spending the past year at Ridgefield High School teaching French and German. Lundquist has a master’s degrees in teaching and German from Tufts University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in French and German from Georgetown University.
Bob Mueller is the interim chief financial officer. Mueller comes to Country School after two years as executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools’ Business Officers’ Association’s Health Benefit Trust, an organization of area independent schools he started in 1991 and transitioned to self-funded status with $96 million in revenue in 2016. Prior to that, Mueller was CFO at Delaware Valley Friends School in Pennsylvania for 25 years, where he oversaw all manner of the school’s finance and operations. Mueller has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Swarthmore College.