Kingfisher School's Teacher of the Year
Lou Barrick, Teacher of the Year
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Lou Barrick is the fifth grade language arts/social
studies teacher at Kingfisher Middle School. She has taught for
Kingfisher Middle School for twenty years and eleven years prior to that
at Elk City.
Mrs. Barrick is from Hammon, Oklahoma and is a graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University, where she earned her under-graduate degree in elementary education and a master's degree as a reading specialist.
Mrs. Barrick has served as a mentor teacher for many college students in the field of education and has served on many committees at the state and local level. Lou has been a presenter at local and state meetings and was selected to attend the Colonial Williamsburg Teachers Institute in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Lou and her husband, Ross, are the proud parents of four boys. Ryan and his wife, Angie, are from Norman, Justin lives from Edmond, Eric and his wife, Candice, are from Oklahoma City and Cooper lives in Phoenix, AZ. Ross and Lou are members of the First Baptist Church.
Gilmour Teacher of the Year
Laurie Hagar received her Early Childhood Education degree from the
University of Cen
tral
Oklahoma in 1999. Her teaching career began here at Kingfisher as
a teaching assistant in the alternative education classroom in the fall
of 1999. The next year included assignments in the
multi-handicapped classroom and high school Biblical Literature.
Each of these early assignments was an amazing teaching experience for
her.
In the fall of 2001, her passion for early childhood became her profession with a half-day teaching position in Pre Kindergarten at Gilmour. For two years, Laurie's half-day Pre K position was coupled with being a parent educator with the Oklahoma Parents as Teachers Grant. Since the fall of 2003, she has been blessed with two half-day Pre K classes.
Laurie continues to be humbled and privileged that her "job" is coming to Gilmour (one of the top ten elementary schools in Oklahoma), "working" with such an accomplished staff, and "playing" with some of the most engaging and exciting four and five year olds who are just beginning their educational endeavors.
High School Teacher of the Year
Ryan Schenk has been teaching
Spanish for eleven years. He has taught in Oklahoma Ci
ty,
McKinney, Texas and Hennessey before coming to Kingfisher last year.
He was District Teacher of the Year in Hennessey in 2007. Mr.
Schenk teaches Spanish I and Spanish II at Kingfisher High School, and
he teaches seventh and eighth grade Spanish at the
Middle School. He is also co-sponsor of KHS Student Council.
He and his wife, Kelli, live in Kingfisher with their two children,
Braden, eleven, and Kami, six. Mr. Schenk was a graduate of Watonga High
School and the University of Oklahoma. He is the son of Dr. Curtis
and Deborah Schenk and grandson of Don and Wanda Roach, all of Watonga.