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**//Mike Kontrelos//**

 * //Affective Needs Center Program Director, Case Manager, Teacher//**

**Phone:** 720-423-7088
American proverb- **//If you can't fly, crawl!//** || Education: Minors in Sociology and Journalism
 * Degree:** BA in Speech Communication
 * School:** Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Special Education Generalist License K-12
 * Degree:** Secondary Education
 * License**:Colorado Teachers License and
 * School:** Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

Special Education k-12 Secondary English Crisis Prevention Intervention Aggression Replacement Therapy Peace for Kids levels !-4 ELA.
 * State Endorsements:**

The main objective of this course is to improve character and leadership traits by developing critical thinking and decision-making skills emphasizing positive changes in attitude and behavior utilizing Aggression Reduction Therapy techniques and other therapeutic and scientific curriculum.
 * //CHARACTER EDUCATION//** topics are designed to be meaningful to student's lives and to motivate students to become strong, effective leaders on both personal and professional levels in today's diverse world.


 * //ENGLISH 2, WORLD LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION//** is a sophomore level class that is designed to help students develop creative and critical thinking and response skills to a variety of literary genres. Two main units of study, //External or Internal// ? and //Atrocities and Remembrances// make up the core focus of this course and include detailed and exploratory interaction and analysis of author's works from around the world!

//**COLLEGE FAST TRACK**//: This course will help students achieve their post-secondary goals using curriculum addressing career exploration and development, job readiness and post-secondary education. Through this course, students will prepare to transition to employment, post-secondary education or both. Students will also develop skills necessary for independence and community living including financial budgeting and planning. This is will be accomplished through interactive activities, community based experiences such as job shadows and business tours, guest speakers and classroom activities. This course will also incorporate academic skills development using workplace skills curriculum.

|| ==Class Schedule==

Special Education -
Affective Needs Center Program

Leadership
Team

**Period 6.** English 2-World Lit. &
Composition

**Period 8.** College Fast Track [[image:tj-repensek/spacer.jpg]]
|| =Life Before Thomas Jefferson:= This is my eighth year at TJHS as the Affective Needs Center Program Director for the special education department.. My professional career has included ski instructor at Winter Park, teaching and counseling at residential treatment centers, owning and operating an art gallery and custom framing shop, and I was publisher and sales manager of a newspaper and magazine production company in Los Angeles for many years before returning to Colorado. I am a native Coloradoan and my family loves to hike and ski, cook and read. GooooooOOOOO SPARTANS! GooooooOOOOO RAMS!