NEW TEACHER FEATURE STORIES

Lisa Demontmollin is Durant High School’s new reading teacher. This is her first year at Durant, but she has lived and taught in Florida her whole life, including teaching in the Hillsborough County School System for 12 years. What other schools have you worked at? I started out at Randall and Rodgers my first few years in the county when I was tenured. And I’ve always been in middle school...

Ralph Underwood is the new culinary teacher at Durant, teaching both Culinary I and II. This will be his tenth year of teaching. What other jobs did you have before you became a culinary teacher? “In high school I worked for TECO as a human resources specialist, in College I worked as an emergency band control route. After I went to culinary school I worked for Outback as a trainer, so I wo...

Kyle Bingham is a new Algebra 2 teacher for Durant high school. He spent 11 years working as a math teacher at, Clearwater Christian College. How long have you been working in the Hillsborough County School System? “I've been teaching for a total of 12 Years and 11 of those have been math” What is your job here at Durant? “I'm mostly doing Algebra 2 in person, but I also have an onli...

Jennifer Hayes is Durant's new Algebra and Geometry teacher. Hayes taught at Mulrennan Middle School for fifteen years prior to transferring to Durant, but has worked in a number of middle schools, as a music, history, and AVID teacher. She transferred to Durant, not only because she wanted to teach at a high school level, but because of the impression she has of Durant.    Why did you want to teach at D...

Samantha Origlia is the new College and Career Counselor at Durant this year. She worked as a long-term substitute, at the elementary level, for the past three years while she was going through graduate school. She grew up along the East coast and moved to Fort Meyers to go to school at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). After school, she knew that she wanted to move to Tampa and found herself at D...

Mr. Kerry McHugh is one of the fifteen new teachers at Durant High School this year. McHugh has worked for the Hillsborough County Public School System for 20 years and will begin his first year at Durant as the AP and Regular World History teacher for e-learners.  Why are you doing e-learning? I'm doing e-learning because both my husband & I have underlying health issues that can become...