Meet the Briarcrest Teachers and Staff!


Each month we are going to introduce our community to our staff through a few fun questions! 


Meet Derek Dalasta

Briarcrest Principal

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • Thanksgiving because my wife is Canadian so we get to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in October and American Thanksgiving in November = two delicious feasts surrounded by family!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • If I could have a superpower, it would be to conjure tacos with my mind: carnitas, asada, and of course al pastor!

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • I have always wanted to try sky-diving, but I'm a bit scared. So I'll say scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef.

Meet Sadrina Dorn

Dean

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday is Easter Morning- My family always gets together, and we have a traditional Austrian Breakfast that includes home-smoked meats, plum sauce, and a special bread called Paasstol, which has cinnamon.  We put butter and honey on it, and it is delicious.   We also do an egg hunt even though my children are older, it is very tricky.

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower would be swimming without needing oxygen.  I love snorkeling and used to scuba dive a lot.  I love looking at all the different fish and sea life.  I would love to swim around the world and see all the beautiful fish without carrying a heavy oxygen tank.  :)

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • One thing on my bucket list is to visit the beautiful Caribbean Island beaches of either Turks or Caicos with my family, swim all day long in the beautiful blue sea, sit on the beach, and read a good book. 

 


Meet Bob Grimm

5th Grade Teacher

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • Labor Day-A holiday with warm weather, no expectations to maintain any traditions (Easter, Independence Day), and football games!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • Preferred Superpower: Knowledge of the future, because I could save lives and make wise investments!

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • One thing on the Bucket List: A Mediterranean Cruise

Meet Cindy Ebisu

3rd Grade Teacher

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday/celebration is my birthday because of the Pink Party!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My super power wish would be to educate all the children in the world and make sure they had enough to eat and drink.

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • My bucket list item is to view the pink/green Aurora Borealis.

Meet Anna Stuart 

1st Grade Teacher

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday celebration is Easter. I love the beginning of spring and the flowers and food it brings along. I love cooking and particularly like traditional Easter foods like lamb or ham, asparagus, eggs, strawberries, and chocolate! And I like that it's a special time with family without the added pressure of presents (like at Christmas). 

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower would be to slow time down. I just love watching my daughter and step-son grow, but they're growing too fast! I wish I had more time to enjoy each stage of their lives, and I wish I had more time to do fun things with them like travel. 

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • To live abroad with my family. I have lived in other countries myself, but not with my husband and kids and would love to be able to do that sometime with them!

Meet Amy Pitts

2nd Grade Teacher


What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday is 4th of July because we all gather at our family beach house!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower would be to fly....then I could travel anywhere, anytime I wanted :-)

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • Bucket list is to travel all through England.


Meet Stacey Neeble

5th Grade Teacher

 

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • I love Christmas because of the lights, the food, the carols, the sappy movies, and FAMILY!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • I'd like to be able to fly.  I sometimes have dreams where I can fly and it feels amazing!

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • I want to travel to Australia and New Zealand.

Meet Michelle Holguin

3rd Grade Teacher

 

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday is Christmas.  I love decorating my home with lights and nativity sets for the season.  I also love all the baking and sweets that come with the season!

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower would be flying!  I do not enjoy driving so if I could fly everywhere that would be awesome.

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • Visiting Hawaii is one item on my bucket list.  I would especially love to see the volcanoes.

Meet Emma LaBlanc

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday is Christmas-- my family always gets together, and we always have snow at our family home.

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower-- teleportation, I would love to go anyplace in a snap!

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • One thing on my bucket list-- I would love to bike the "Seattle to Portland" sometime in the near future. 

Meet Taylor Seda

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • I absolutely love the time around winter holidays because it's so cozy with the cold weather, Christmas lights, and extra decorations around the house. It also marks the start of ski season which is something to celebrate! 

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • Teleporting would be the coolest! I am an avid traveler but also have severe motion sickness, so being able to cut out the time spent on airplanes (and in airports), cars, buses, you name it... would make travel even better than it already is. 

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • Traveling to Antarctica; it's the only continent that I haven't been to and it seems otherworldly. Now if only I could teleport to avoid the many days on a boat it takes to get there... 

    *This is a picture from our honeymoon in Kenya at The Giraffe Manor in Nairobi. 

Meet Allison Bui

What is your favorite holiday or celebration and why?

  • My favorite holiday is Christmas. I love all of the traditions that I do with my family and the celebrations that go along with it. 

What would your superpower be if you could pick and why?

  • My superpower would be flying because I have always been fascinated with the idea of being able to fly in the sky. 

What's one thing on your bucket list?

  • I want to see the Grand Canyon with my family. 

When we were in Remote Learning our Briarcrest Staff created this great video to welcome back the students

Get the kids and watch this ADORABLE 5-minute video the Briarcrest staff created a couple years ago to welcome students back. There's a cameo from Butch that you don't want to miss!