Meet Our GATE Team

Gifted Education Faculty

Tanya Fredrick

Cottonwood Elementary/ Northside Elementary/ Pomona Elementary

Tanya Fredrick is the elementary G/T Facilitator who splits her time between Cottonwood, Olathe, Johnson, and Pomona Elementary Schools. She has been an educator for 27 years and has spent 25 of those years in gifted education. She was in a GATE program as a child and went on to attend the University of California at Santa Barbara earning her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology. She also has a M.A. in Education: Curriculum & Instruction from Chapman University. Tanya loves working with gifted kids because of their out of the box thinking and their senses of humor. She lives in Montrose and has an adult daughter working in higher education.

Danielle Kistler

Olathe Middle High School

Danielle Kistler is the GATE Facilitator at OMHS. She has been an educator for 21 years and has been working with gifted students the last 7 years. She has experience teaching grades K-12, but spent much of her career in the secondary English classroom. She enjoys working with gifted students and watching them grow and develop intellectually and emotionally. She has a MA in English and is working towards her GATE endorsement. Danielleh has three children - one in college and two in high school. When she is not teaching, Danielle enjoys spending time with her family and friends, reading, exercising, and baking.

Beth Kruis

Centennial Middle School

Beth Kruis and her husband Ron moved to Montrose in 2017 from Westcliffe, CO. Beth is the middle school GATE Facilitator at Centennial Middle School. Beth has been in education for nineteen years, having held positions in elementary school, reading intervention, GATE and student advocacy. Beth enjoys working with gifted students as they seek to find their own true ability, potential and special place in the world. Outside of teaching Beth enjoys cooking, gardening, exercising, reading, hiking and especially spending time with her children and grandchildren.

Doug Fewell

Columbine Middle School/Johnson Elementary/Olathe Elementary

My name is Doug Fewell. After retiring from a 30 year award winning career I came back to teach GATE at Columbine MS. My creative style of teaching fit our students needs perfectly. They come to class everyday eager for the next project. I love being with MCSD and a member of the GATE community. I missed being with students and helping them become great students and citizens. I am the luckiest teacher alive being with Columbine GATE students every day!

"Each Day You Do Not Have A Positive Impact On Someone’s Life Is A Wasted Day.” -Doug Fewell 2017

Allie Freismuth

Gifted Education Coordinator

Allie Freismuth grew up in Montrose and attended Montrose County School District schools. After high school she was a special needs paraprofessional at Johnson Elementary while working on her bachelors degree at Colorado Mesa University. In 2015 she became a 2nd grade teacher at Cottonwood Elementary. She has her masters in STEM Education and has taken on the roles of STEM Coordinator and Math Interventionist, Student and Family Engagement Coordinator and Gifted Education Coordinator.

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