How to get in touch:
If you ever need to contact me, the most effective way to do that is by email: labargew@newtown.k12.ct.us
If you email me before 5pm, I will make every effort to respond to you that evening. If it is after that, I make no promises about my ability to get back to you that evening.
Additionally, you can find me in the English offices in upper B-wing when I'm not teaching classes. Though for the 2021-2022 school year, please try email first!
A little about me:
I was born in Danbury, but spent nearly all of my childhood growing up in Sandy Hook. I attended Sandy Hook Elementary, Newtown Middle School, and graduated from Newtown High School in 2005 (which, as I look at the date, was quite some time ago, now). My family, generally speaking, has been a Newtown family for a looooooong time (my grandfather even served as First Selectman from 2007-2009!) and though much of my family has relocated, it is a continued privilege to work in the district I consider home.
In 2005, I left Newtown and journeyed to the distant land of Philadelphia for college. I had the pleasure of spending four years in the City of Brotherly Love (and a brief semester traipsing around Europe from my university's Rome campus) at Temple University where I got my B.A. in Photography and Journalism. I know what you're thinking - that's not an education degree! And you're right. I worked in marketing after I graduated in 2009 for a few different companies, landing at The Taunton Press (on route 25 in Newtown) in 2011. I worked there full and part time until 2014. But in late 2012, I enrolled at the University of Saint Joseph to become a teacher where I got my masters and license to teach.
After I finished getting my Masters in Education and my license to teach High School English, I knew the place I had to be - back home at NHS. I started teaching at NHS in 2015. Before that I subbed in New Britain, Wethersfield, East Hartford, and for the CREC schools. I did my student teaching at East Hartford High School. But the place I wanted to be, more than anywhere else, was Newtown.
And here I am! Super excited to spend another school year in your English department.