Swanson

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Swanson is an elementary school teacher with more than 30 years experience teaching kindergarten through sixth grade. She holds a lifetime teaching credential, a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, and several additional teaching certifications. During her career, Swanson has served as a “mentor teacher,” an “intern academy instructor,” the interim coordinator for Claremont Graduate School’s Inter-Teacher Program, a “pilot teacher for state adoptions,” a workshop designer/presenter, a “lead teacher,” and a principal designee. She also is a published curriculum writer in several subject matter areas and a successful grant writer. In August 2006, the District hired Swanson as a technology/reading specialist and computer laboratory teacher at Yucca Valley Elementary School. During the 2006/2007 school year, Swanson taught in the school’s computer laboratory and received excellent performance evaluations from her principal, Jeffrey Turner. Turner told Swanson she would keep the same teaching assignment for the 2007/2008 school year, but he left for another school and the new principal, John Lowe, made a last minute change to Swanson’s teaching…