4th/5th Grade Teacher Biographies
Susan Mesches
Susan moved to Colorado from New York in 1998. She started teaching at Sanchez in 2000. She has been teaching fourth grade since 2001.
Susan received her Bachelor’s Degree from Creighton University, her Master’s Degree from the University of New England, and an ESL certificate from Regis University.
Susan has lived in seven states. She not only likes teaching, she likes going to school, too. Wherever she has lived, she has taken classes. Susan has taken classes at sixteen different junior colleges, colleges or universities.
Bev Sanders
Bev began her career out of college as a sports writer for a newspaper in central California, but after too many late nights, decided that she wanted to go back to school to become a teacher. She has now been teaching in Lafayette for 10 years and was the after school coordinator at Ryan Elementary for 3 years before she began teaching. She has taught fourth grade at Lafayette Elem. and fifth grade at Pioneer. She has teaching fifth grade at Sanchez Elementary for 7 years. She has a Masters Degree in Elementary Education from CU Boulder. Bev is also on her 12th year as the head volleyball coach at Centaurus High School.
Along with all the teaching and coaching duties, Bev and her husband, Collins, have three children. Alex is a senior in college at Black Hills State in South Dakota, Dillon is a sophomore quarterback at The Colorado School of Mines, and Evan is a senior at Centaurus High School and plays volleyball for Bev. Collins is the new arena head football coach for the ICE located in Fort Collins. They also have three dogs: Buddy, Roxy, and Cheyenne.
Bev's favorite activities include: playing and coaching sports, reading, hanging out with family and friends, and drinking Starbuck's.
Grant Swift
Grant began teaching when he was in fourth grade – tutoring his first grade neighbor for fun. Since then, he has worked in a children’s zoo, various environmental education roles, the Peace Corps, and, for the last 20 years, as a teacher at Angevine Middle School and Sanchez.
He holds a Masters degree in Elementary Education, and a Bachelor's degree in Wildlife Biology from CSU.
Grant and his wife, Lynn, have twin daughters who are freshmen in college. Lynn is a Plant Ecologist for the City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks.