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REGINA COELI ACADEMY FACULTY
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Father Stephen Torraco
Chaplain of RCA; Instructor: Theology and Confirmation
B.A. St. Francis de Sales College; M.A. Boston College; M. Div., Harvard University Divinity School; Ph.D. Boston College.
Father Torraco currently teaches at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachussetts. He is also the author of various books and articles in moral theology, medical ethics, the social teaching of the Catholic Church, and the spiritual life. Father Torraco has been chaplain and theology instructor for RCA since the academy's inception in 1994 and is also a member of the Experts' Forum of the EWTN web site, where he answers questions in moral theology on a daily basis.
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Mrs. Linda "Magistra" Robinson
Principal of RCA; Instructor: Latin, Humanities Program Coordinator
B.A. McNeese State University; M.A., Louisiana State University
A free-lance writer and teacher, Mrs. Robinson has classroom experience at the middle school, high school, and university level. She has published children's fiction and scholarly articles, directed scholarly conferences on the role of faith in culture, and is the mother of three children, all of whom were home-educated, the eldest of whom is now home-schooling her own brood of three. |
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Miss Kelly Anderson
Instructor: Language Arts, Greek, Progymnasmata
B.A. - Iona College; S.T.B. - Gregorian University; M.A. - Institute of Religious Studies S.S.L. Candidate Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome
Miss Anderson's passion for reading found its culmination in Sacred Scripture. Her Biblical Studies have given her the opportunity to study Greek and Hebrew in Rome, which she hopes to complete with a doctorate in Biblical Studies. She enjoys teaching on the high school level and looks forward this year to begin a college career teaching Ethics at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. She loves music and played the organ for Sunday Masses in Rome, as well as the keyboard for live televised Masses.
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Mrs. Marie Daly
Agnus Dei Instructor, Grammar, Latin, Progymnasmata
B.A., Thomas Aquinas College
After graduating from Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA, with a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts, Mrs. Daly taught geometry
and Latin to high school students at a small Catholic school in Southern California. Upon the birth of her frist child, Brendan, in 2001, she ended her
formal classroom teaching and began to tutor students of all ages in math, grammar, Latin and science. Mrs. Daly joined the Regina Coeli faculty in 2001,
and teaches Grammar 1,2 and Latin. Marie and her husband, Jon, live in Southern California.
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Mrs. Randi Lou Doan
Instructor: Literature and Art History
Mrs. Doan brings to Agnus Dei an avid love and appreciation for literature. She has been teaching Moral of the Story (MOS) to a wide and varied audience, in one format or another, for almost 20 years and has been teaching MOS online since the inception of our online schools in 1995. Mrs. Doan has five children, ages 6 - 24, and has been homeschooling them for 11 years.
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Mrs. Shannon Federoff
Instructor: Language Arts, Humanities Discussion Leader
BA in English, Franciscan University of Steubenville, MA in Curriculum and Instruction, Chapman University
Mrs. Federoff grew up as the child of an U.S. soldier, and spent her high school years in Augsburg, Germany. She was heavily involved in community theater there, and choose to pursue a degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville in English with a concentration in theater arts. She has a master's degree in education, and taught middle school and high school English for 3 years before becoming a full-time homeschool mom. She has been married for 14 years, and has 8 wonderful children. Mrs. Federoff was also a popular chastity educator, working out of a local hospital and giving presentations to Catholic and public schools.
Mrs. Federoff is adept at "thinking out of the box" -- she and Mr. Federoff built their own house out of straw bales! But she specifically requests, "No big-bad-wolf jokes!"
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Mrs. Sandra Harrison
Instructor: Math / Science Instructor; Math/Science Program Coordinator
B.S. University of Arkansas, Little Rock Mrs. Harrison graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, with a Bachelor's degree in Physics and a minor in Math, and was the Honor Physics student of the year her graduating year. She was awarded the Shell Oil Fellowship at Oklahoma University in 1984, and attended the OU as a graduate student in Engineering Physics where her duties included teaching Freshman Physics Laboratories, and Physics problem solving sessions. She has taught Algebra II, Trigonometry, Geometry, Chemistry, Jr. High Physical Science and Jr. High Math classes at a small Catholic school in Cincinnati, OH.
She and her husband, Havis, have seven lovely children (ages 14- 1): Benjamin, Daniel, Samuel, Isaac, Eva Marie, Noah and Micah.. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are CCD teachers for their parish, teach Natural Family Planning for the diocese of Little Rock. For the past nine years, they have used a classical approach in their home school in South-East Arkansas, where they reside with several cats, two dogs and sundry other pets.
Sandra is co-president of High Note Solutions Co., which produces Catholic Music Curricula for home educators.
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Dr. Francisco Romero
Instructor: Logic, Philosophy, Latin
B.S. University of Steunbenville, Ohio
Mr. Romero was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At age 18 he left the island to pursue philosophical studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio). He later continued his doctoral studies in philosophy at Marquette University, in Milwaukee. There, he specialized in Medieval Aristotelian and Scholastic thought. For the last six years he has taught philosophy, Latin, and other disciplines at various institutions, such as Marquette University, Cardinal Stritch University, Christ the King College, St. Francis Seminary, and Miami-Dade College. He and his wife and three daughters currently live in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Mr. Romero will defend his dissertation this May and will receive his doctorate before the start of classes.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson
Instructor: Language Arts, French
B.A, The University of Western Ontario; Bachelor of Education - Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario; Certificat en français langue seconde - Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec
Mrs. Thompson graduated from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, with an honors degree in French Language and Literature. During her years at Western, she took a one-year study term at the Universite Laval in Quebec City and there obtained a Certificate in French as a Second Language. Mrs. Thompson also earned a TESL Certificate, which she had the opportunity to employ overseas when she accepted an offer to teach ESL in South Korea over one fascinating year. While Mrs. Thompson has taught several ESL classes to secondary school students, the majority of her teaching experience includes general Classroom, Core French, Music, and beginner Band. Mrs. Thompson has directed her Church and school Choir for a number of years, and more recently, was a leader of K4J (Kids for Jesus) in her parish, until the birth of her darling daughter.
Mrs. Thompson and her husband Michael currently reside in Northern Alberta, Canada, with their13-month old, Theresa and 4-month old, Catherine. She also has two wonderful stepsons, Connor and Blaise. Mrs. Thompson is the tenth of 13 children. She and her husband are aunt and uncle to 74 nieces and nephews, with several more on the way.
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