Amanda (Mandy) grew up in the Weyauwega/Fremont, WI, area and is a 1998 graduate of Fox Valley Lutheran High School.  She always knew she wanted to be a teacher, so she attended Martin Luther College to prepare for the teaching ministry.  Between her fourth and fifth years of college, she took a year off to serve as an emergency teacher at Manitowoc Lutheran High School. She returned to MLC to finish her degree in Elementary and Secondary Education.
She was assigned to teach grades K-3 at St. Mark Lutheran School Lincoln, NE. She taught there for 7 years and coordinated VBS and the hot lunch program. While she was teaching in Nebraska, she earned her Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Doane University in 2011.
In 2011, she accepted a Call to teach grades 2-4 at St. Matthew Lutheran School in Spokane, WI, and taught there for two years before moving back to Wisconsin. Mandy then taught grades 3-4 & 7-8 at Trinity Lutheran School in Kiel, WI. After her husband accepted a call to St. John’s in Sparta, they moved to Sparta were she taught part-time in the 7-8th grade for one year at St. Paul and then accepted the Call to teach 2nd grade and coordinate school technology.  She holds current state teaching licenses in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
 

    Mandy serves as a new teacher mentor through Martin Luther College’s New Teacher Induction Program and is a lead mentor for the Western Wisconsin District.  She lives in Sparta with her husband, David, who serves as the School Pastor and Principal at St. John’s Lutheran in Sparta. They have two Golden Retrievers named Tucker & Gus.