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Rick Peters

Advanced Class Humanities, Debate

rpeters@novaschool.org

"Navigating the middle school years is difficult and I create a fun, challenging environment where each student can use their voice in the way that is most comfortable to them. NOVA is that rare space where you can be 100% your authentic true self. My goal is to nurture that authenticity in all aspects of the learning experience."

Fun Fact #1 — My memory for theme songs from 70s Saturday kids’ shows borders on the ridiculous.

Fun Fact #2 — I was featured in a 2011 Sunday NY Times front page article about a case here in Thurston County that I was working on. It’s still on their website in the archives.

Fun Fact #3 — I have a French bulldog named Gus who is my joy and surrogate grandchild. I love him to pieces and yet he’d throw me over for a moldy chicken nugget.

I choose to work at NOVA because this is the only place I’ve ever wanted to teach. After sending our middle child here during a critical time in their social development/self discovery, it is without question the best education money my wife and I ever spent. It is a privilege to pay that back doing something I love.

Land Acknowledgement

NOVA is located on the ancestral lands of the Steh-Chass band of the Squaxin Island Tribe and Nisqually Indian Tribe, who have long been stewards of the region’s waters, plants, and animals. The southernmost point of the Salish Sea, these lands were—and still are—a place of gathering, trade, and community for many Coast Salish peoples. We recognize that all who are not Salish peoples are visitors here. We commit to join these peoples to share their history, build relationships, increase representation, and restore the living world around us.