EC Teacher

Susan Boyd-Humbert graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Special Education. She holds a Master’s degree in Special Education, with concentrations in Learning Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Autism and Behavior Specialist. As Exceptional Children Director of two North Carolina charter schools, she wrote the documents and opened a charter school in eastern North Carolina as well as opening a school in Orange County. Ms. Boyd-Humbert is certified in TEACCH strategies and has a son who has autism. She has been teaching for 19 years and loves integrating technology into the classroom!

CTE Teacher

Hello! My name is Coluette Brown-Hicks. I am a Career & Technical Education teacher, which simply means that I teach business education classes.  I am from Kinston, NC which is a very small "city" in eastern North Carolina.  ( Which, by the way, has become a town that seems to breed NBA and NFL players!) I am a "Double Eagle" as I earned both my undergraduate (Business Administration), and graduate degrees (Educational Technology)  from North Carolina Central University.  This year makes 19 years that I have been working as a high school teacher- whew!  I have also been married to my wonderful husband Anthony for 19 years.  Our family consists of two adult children- Abrianna & Cameron, my sister/daughter Nikki, and my mother-in-love Naomi.  I enjoy a variety of activities but lately my favorites include bike riding,  traveling to new places, painting/art, attending Jazz festivals with my husband and college besties, and gardening with my sister Nikki. 

Art Teacher

Linda Cato is a visual artist and educator and brings to her work a deep understanding of the ways creativity can transform us on personal, community, and global levels. She believes strongly in working with youth to develop their creative competencies so that they may become the innovators, problem solvers, and changemakers that the world needs. Originally from New York, Ms. Cato received her BFA from the University of Arizona, relocating to North Carolina after many years of living and teaching in the desert Southwest. Ms. Cato has recently completed additional training in  Social Emotional Arts and Learning through the Arts and Healing program at UCLA. Her main professional goal is to continually refine her craft in order to best assist her students so that they may reach their full potential. 

Math Teacher

Hello, my name is Cindy Clouse, and I am the mathematics teacher for the Virtual Learning Academy.  I’m very excited to get this opportunity to teach virtual school, as I have been training for it my whole life!  I attended California State Polytechnic School, Pomona, where I earned a B.S. in Mathematics, a secondary teaching credential, and a M.A. in Educational Computer Technology.  I wrote my thesis about how teachers could use internet resources in their classrooms, and this was so long ago that the world wide web wasn’t invented yet!!  I’ve always been a math teacher first and foremost, with technology as part of my many secondary duties.

I was born in California and lived there almost my whole life, working for Chino Valley Unified School District for much of my career.  Recently I’ve also taught at Ojai Valley School, School Year Abroad in France, and the DODEA virtual school.  I am here in North Carolina with my husband, who is stationed at Camp Lejeune with the U.S. Coast Guard.  We live in Jacksonville with our three beautiful dogs, while our three adult children live in California.  For entertainment, I like to travel, cook, garden, play on my computer, code, and read tons of books.  We traveled to Iceland in August (ask me to see my volcano videos). 

English Teacher

A Triangle native, Andrew Lallier studied English and German at UNC - Chapel Hill and received his M.A. and PhD in English from UT - Knoxville, with a focus on Literature and Philosophy. As a lecturer and teaching assistant professor at UT and UNC, he taught courses in composition and British, American, and Global literature.  As an Upper School Language Arts instructor at Carolina Friends School, he taught courses in American literature, creative writing, and science fiction.  Andrew also worked for four years in the Writing Center at UT and is always looking for new and interesting ways to help students engage with different forms of writing, reading and interpreting.  At the Virtual Learning Academy, he seeks to help students build competence, capacity, and confidence as they learn and grow as readers, writers, and agents.

Spanish Teacher

My name is Anuja Lang and I have been teaching Spanish for 22 years. I am originally from Norwalk, CT, but I have lived in North Carolina (both in Chapel Hill and Durham) for over twenty years. I received my BA in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. During my time at UW Madison, I also spent a year in Madrid studying Spanish at the Universidad Complutense. After completing my BA, I received an MA in Teaching from UNC- Chapel Hill in 2000. I taught for 21 years at Riverside High School in Durham, where I have taught all levels from I through AP Spanish V. I live with my husband Jeff (also a teacher) and our two elementary school kids, Kiran and Ari, in Durham.