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Team Sirius Biographies


Kay du Moulin, Instructional Assistant
Kay has been an Instructional Assistant with the Montpelier school district for 14 years. Her patience and motivational skills are particularly suited to working with middle school students. Kay graduated from Woodbury College’s Paralegal program in 1989; she followed with 3 years of volunteer service with Battered Women’s Services of Washington County. Kay, her husband Peter, and their two children moved from Middlesex to Montpelier in 1993.


Gary Griffith, Social Studies
I have been a middle school math and social studies teacher for 20 years and am currently the Team Leader of the Sirius team. My educational background includes a B.S. degree in Business Administration and a M.A. degree in Education. The State of Vermont license endorsements that I currently hold are in mathematics, social studies, middle grades, and principal. My outside of school activities include working with youth sports programs and watching my sons games. My wife, Terry, and I have three sons, one is at Harwood Union High School, one is at Union College, and the other is in the Peace Corp serving in the Dominican Republic.


Patti Magoon, Language Arts
This is my 30th year of teaching, and I can say that the time zooms when you’re doing work that you truly enjoy. I graduated from Vanderbilt University with a master’s degree in reading, and I earned my B.A. in education from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I hold a Vermont teaching license in three areas: grade 7-12 English, grades pre-K—12 as a reading specialist, and grades K—6 in elementary education. I am originally from Pennsylvania, and my husband Peter is a native Vermonter. In my spare time you’ll find me experimenting with new recipes; enjoying music; museum-hopping, hiking, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing with Peter; and curled up in my favorite chair with a good book and our cat Polydactyl, aka PD.


Sheila Paterson, Special Educator
I am a Massachusetts native and love my adopted state of Vermont. Initially, college lured me to this beautiful state. I received my undergraduate degree from Trinity College and my M.Ed. from the University of Vermont. I have been a special educator since 1989. For the past 10 years I have worked for the Montpelier School District and have been at Main Street Middle School for 8 years. My husband and I have three daughters ages 11, 9, and 5. When I’m not driving to practice or settling small skirmishes I enjoy walking, reading, gardening and skiing.


Eli Rosenberg, Science
I was born and brought up in Middlebury, Vermont, and although I have lived in Japan, Philadelphia, Massachusetts, California, and Burlington, Vermont never relinquished its hold on me and I now reside in Montpelier. I received a M.Ed. from UVM in 1999, and have subsequently taught for three years as a middle school science teacher. Before I was certified, I taught for two years as an environmental educator at Nature’s Classroom, and as a post-baccalaureate student built up my knowledge of Biology, Geology, Conflict Resolution, Chemistry, Forestry, and a few other odds and ends at UVM, Michigan State, and Middlebury College. I have an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Haverford College, and I speak Japanese to a modest degree. I enjoy snowboarding, hiking, coffee, playing strategy games, kayaking, and in general having fun.


Barb Marcouillier, Math
I am very excited to be joining Main Street Middle School and starting my twelfth year of teaching middle school. I was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and received my B.S. from Lowell State College with a major in Mathematics and minors in Science and Education. While taking graduate courses in mathematics at the University of Connecticut, I held a Teaching Assistantship and taught undergraduate courses in Algebra & Trigonometry. For many years after leaving the University, I worked as a computer programmer before returning to education. In the fall of 2001, I completed my M. Ed. with a concentration in Information Technology at St. Michael’s College and in November of 2005, I achieved National Board Certification in Early Adolescent Mathematics. I have two sons, one who has returned to Vermont after graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design the other is currently residing in New York. In my spare time I enjoy yoga, water aerobics, cross-country skiing, reading, walking in the woods and spending time with my family and friends.


Joy Thomas, Instructional Assistant
I am starting my 11th yeat at MSMS, working in special education and with our behavior specialist. I am excited to back with team Sirius this year. I am a co-advisor for MSMS Student Council and the yearbook advisor. I grew up in Connecticut and Massachusetts and came to Montpelier in 1978 as a student at Vermont College majoring in Early Child Development. I live in Montpelier with Marty, my husband of 25 years and I am the proud mother of 3 children all graduates of Montpelier High School.