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Michael
Peña
Introduction to Multimedia (9th grade)
Debbie Dehlinger
Communication Applications, Media Criticism (9th
grade)
Jill Barton
Multimedia (10th grade) Stephen
Villela
Video Technology (11th grade)
Heidi Whitus
Communications
Electives: Media Literacy (Film Studies), Yearbook, Art 4 Electronic
Media (Advanced
Video Production), Computer Multimedia (Advanced Multimedia) Shellie
Malik
Independent
Study Mentorship, Yearbook
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Michael
Peña
Introduction to Multimedia
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Michael
Peña is in his first year at CAHS. Born and raised in San Antonio,
he graduated from John Jay High School. In 1999 he received his
BA in Marketing from the University of Texas in San Antonio, where
he was also a member of The American Marketing Association. In
2006 he earned a MEd in Secondary Education with an emphasis in
Technology from Texas State University in San Marcos.
Before coming
to CAHS, Mr. Peña spent the previous three years teaching at
Harlandale High School, where he coached freshman football
and JV and Varsity Soccer.
Mr. Peña
will also serve as class sponsor for the class of 2011. Besides
teaching and coaching, he enjoys fishing, hunting, golfing
and on-line poker. But most of his time is spent with his two sons
Seth and Ethan and his wife Jessica.
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Debbie
Dehlinger
Communication Applications, Media Criticism
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Ms.
Debbie Dehlinger's childhood was spent as an Army brat living
all
over the United States and world attending approximately 17 schools
including three high schools. She has over twenty years teaching
experience; eighteen were at Thomas Jefferson High School,
San Antonio, as Director of Forensics and Director of Theatre.
She
was most privileged to have had wonderful students who enriched
her life greatly. During those years her students won 17 UIL
One-Act
Play District Championships, 2nd place in the nation in Dramatic
Interpretation, places at UIL State in Prose, Poetry, and Extemporaneous
Speaking, and a number of Texas Forensic tournament honors. She
was also fortunate to have served as a president of the two state
speech organizations, Texas Speech Communication Association and Texas Forensic
Association, and has received several teaching awards.
She
is very honored to be in her twelfth year at Communications
Arts
and to have the opportunity to work with the great students in
this year's freshman class.
Her
degrees include a B.A. in English with a minor in Speech, Southwest
Texas State University, and a M.A. in Educational Psychology, University
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Jill
Barton
Multimedia
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In
December of 1993, Jill Barton earned her B.B.A. and a teaching
certification from Baylor University. She began her teaching
career at Coolidge ISD, a small 1A school district 35 miles northeast
of Waco, Texas. During her 3 and a half years at Coolidge, she
was the Technology Coordinator for the district and taught classes
in Computer Literacy, Business Computer Applications, Personal
Business Management, and Business Communications. Her husband
Terry is a teacher/coach at Reagan High School in Northside
ISD. They have a son named Kristopher and a daughter named Kathleen.
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Stephen Villela
Video Technology
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Stephen
Villela is one of the newest additions to CAHS. He was born
and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Thomas Jefferson
High School
and went on to graduate from The University of The Incarnate
Word with a B.A. in Music/Communication Arts. His major concentrations were in Musical Composition & Performance and Audio/Video
Production.
While at Incarnate
Word, Mr. Villela was very involved with on-campus organizations
such as the UIW Jazz Ensemble, KUIW Internet Radio (where
he served as Sports Director), Rec Sports Campus Intramurals,
and Lambda
Chi Alpha Fraternity.
Mr. Villela sits
on the Board of Directors of local film
company CineVeliz, Inc. He has had the privilege to be a part
of several film productions, most notably La Tragedia de
Marcario (Official
selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival). He continues to
work as a freelance producer/editor for various productions and events.
Mr.
Villela is a local musician and plays with several Latin,
Jazz, Country and
Rock groups around San Antonio. In his spare time he enjoys riding
motorcycles and going to various sporting events, especially
UT football
games and Spurs games.
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Heidi
Whitus
Media Literacy (Film Studies), Yearbook, Art 4 Electronic Media
(Advanced Video Production), Computer Multimedia (Advanced Multimedia)
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Heidi
Klein Whitus was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has a
B.F.A. in Cinema from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, an
M.F.A. in Video Research from the Art Media Studies Department
at Syracuse University, and an M.A. from the University of Texas
at Austin in Foreign Language Education. Her work in photography
and video has been shown in exhibits and festivals in the U.S.
and abroad. Prior to teaching, she worked in various sectors
of the film and
video
industry in New York. There she met her husband, Dean,
who is a Theater Arts teacher at MacArthur High School in Northeast
ISD. They
have a daughter named Miranda, born in 1996, and a son named
Simon, born in 2003.
Ms.
Whitus is active in the field of media literacy. In 2001
she served on a Media Literacy Guidelines Panel for the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy. She has also worked
for the Texas Education Agency writing a statewide
media literacy curriculum for Language Arts teachers. She is
a proud
member of the National
Association for Media Literacy Education and
gives workshops and presentations on media literacy topics at
district, state and national levels. She serves on the
editorial board of the online Journal of Media
Literacy.
Ms.
Whitus
also teaches at San Antonio College
in the Radio Television Film Department. She loves to
travel, and has visited Southeast Asia, Morocco,
Central America,
and Europe,
in
addition
to her
family's annual
trips to Mexico for Christmas and road trips to most of the continental
United States.
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Shellie
Malik
Independent Study Mentorship, Yearbook
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Shellie
Malik is a native of South Texas and graduated from Texas State
University
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English
and Speech Communications and a Master of Arts degree in Speech
Communications. Before moving to CAHS in 2006, she taught at H.B.
Zachry Middle School where she taught English, theater arts, keyboarding
and creative writing. As a Gifted and Enrichment Specialist, she
chaired district-wide GT events, presented GT staff development
and was involved with the state’s GT Performance Standards
Projects.
Mrs.
Malik and her husband, James, have two children, Darren and Lauren,
who are both graduates of Communications Arts High School.
As a family, they enjoy traveling and being outdoors and have
traveled to all 50 states. In 2007, James made a career change
and began
teaching at Taft High School. They now plan to spend summers
traveling abroad and took their first trip to China in 2008.
She and James
are very involved with the local youth soccer program, spending
many hours at the soccer fields. In her spare time, she enjoys
reading and spending time with her family.
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