My name is Hillary Shepperd (Harding) and I have worked at Cherry Creek Academy in the past. I had left CCA in 2017-2018 to work as a technology teacher at Douglas County School district and to gain a full teacher license through the districts program. I am very happy to be at Cherry Creek Academy to be the K-1st and 7th/8th technology teacher and elective teacher for middle school.

I am a native here in Colorado! I grew up in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Starting my education at Cottonwood Creek to Campus and onto Cherry Creek HS. I graduated from Colorado State University in 2010 with a BFA with a focus on Graphic Design. I am now in my masters in Learning Design and Technology! This is an online program through CU - Denver.

Shortly after graduating from undergrad, I found myself teaching elementary English in South Korea for a year. I loved every second of being in the classroom! Afterwards, I traveled Asia for a few months before finally coming home to Denver. Traveling is important in life and it was a time in life where I grew the most in every way possible. It is something that needs to be experienced first hand to really understand the impact travel has.

Technology and traveling relate as they both can change so quickly and if you are not able to be thoughtful and flexible with the situation at hand, it will never work out. I am excited to take this journey with CCA students this year to help them be smart tech travelers so that they can continue to travel through this wonderful crazy 21st century life while at CCA and beyond.

My email is hshepperd@cherrycreekacademy.org .