The first teaching position that opened at Rose Hill High School was for English classes. It was taken by Jan Peele, who has been teaching at Winfield for 23 or 24 years. She has been a Rose Hill resident for two years and has been commuting down to Winfeild. 

“We have Jan Peele, she’s at Winfield right now and has been for several years, I think 23 or 24. And ironically Mrs. Martin’s sister had her as a teacher down there and said that she’s her favorite teacher of all time,” said Rose Hill High School principal Aaron Jackson. “But Mrs. Peel is a Rose Hill resident so she’s been driving down to Winfeild to teach and stuff for the last year or two.” 

Peel has had many great reviews and everyone who has talked with her about this position and her ideas for the next year are greatly impressed. 

“When the position became available, she applied and she did a nice job. I think all the students will like her, she’s very genuine, a nurturing person and caring,” said Jackson. “She also has a great passion for English.” 

The next position that opened up was for a new science teacher. The spot ended up going to Alexa Madden, who is from Montrose, Colorado. She is moving to Wichita to be with her significant other. 

“We ended up hiring Alexa Madden, who is from Montrose, Colorado. She’s moving to Wichita, her significant other lives in Wichita, and so she’s wanting to move here and the position became available so she applied and will be taking over for Mr.Grier, teaching the same classes he had,” Jackson said. “So she’ll have physical science, Environmental science, we will be offering physics as well.” 

Madden also has had a different experience being from a small Colorado school, who has to do virtual for some parts of the year. 

“She has three years of experience, it’s a different one in Montrose there. It’s a smaller skiing community, with farms so up in the mountains when there’s snow you can’t really get to school. So they have virtual days and in person days, so she’s on the virtual side for high school aged kids. But then also has an in person seventh grade class,” said Jackson. “As far as directing and overseeing she has about 100 virtual students in the science area. Through that she’s teetered in all aspects of science we offer.”