Leah Carver
I graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in
Health and Physical Education in winter, 1991 and completed requirements for a
Masters degree in Physical Education from North Georgia College and State
University in summer, 1999, and a Specialist degree in Curriculum and Instruction
from Piedmont College in 2008.
I began my career as a substitute teaching health and physical fitness at
Forsyth Central High School from January 1992 to June 1992. In the fall of 1992,
I accepted a full time teaching position as a Physical Education teacher at Coal
Mountain Elementary. From 1994 to 1997, in addition to my teaching duties at
Coal Mountain, I coached various levels of softball, tennis, and basketball at Forsyth
Central High School. In 1996, I served as assistant coach to the state championship
softball team from Forsyth Central.
I teach five, fifty minute, classes a day with the added support of a full time
para-professional, Kathleen Hoffman.! Yay!!! I also work with each grade level at the
end of day on inquiry based units. We have approximately six- hundred + students.
We feel we conduct a balanced and sequential curriculum that reflects an
understanding of child growth and development. Each lesson is typically divided into
four segments: warm-up activity, fitness activity, instructional activity, and concluding
activity. The curriculum of physical education has changed enormously over the
years- and it has changed for the better!
I enjoy boating, listening to music (Dave Matthews Band and Jimmy Buffett
being my favorites!), hiking, playing tennis, being a UGA fan, going to the beach,
reading, cooking and spending time with family and friends.
I married Brad Carver in 1998 and we have a daughter, Ansley, age 11. She
is a fifth grade student at Coal Mountain Elementary School! We also have a lab
named Sailor and a cat named Maui. Life is good!
Bicycling
down
Haleakala
Volcano in
Maui, Hawaii
Meeting
Jimmy
Buffett
(our
favorite!)
Volunteering at the
1996 Summer
Olympics. I worked
at the Tennis Venue
for two weeks.