Evan Jones, Breck alum and Middle School science instructor.

Middle School Faculty

Breck Middle School faculty members are actively engaged learners as well as teachers. A perfect example: the Middle School science faculty, every member of which has recently won a grant to create exciting new programs for his or her students.

• Fifth-grade instructor Evan Jones received a $10,000 grant from the Toyota Corporation to create a database that will help fifth graders complete a journey to a fictitious star system during their study of space.
• Sixth-grade science teacher Dan Ratliff has also won a $10,000 grant from Toyota — in addition to a grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation — for an innovative program that will have his students doing feasibility studies of wind turbines and solar power to take their classroom off the commercial energy grid.
• Seventh-grade instructor Virginia Amundson received a $3,500 grant — the first ever to a school — from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to help her seventh graders complete an ambitious shoreline restoration project on the Breck campus.
  
• And eighth-grade instructor Beckie Alexander also received a $10,000 grant from the Toyota Corporation for an ongoing study of ground water on the Breck campus.