Pippin Christiansen - Coach

Mrs. Christiansen is at her first year at Burlington-Edison. She teaches English, mainly Freshman 9A, and Contemperary Literature, which is a Senior elective. Though having no previous debate experience, Mrs Christiansen is very excited to be taking over the debate team and has really high hopes for the first year. She is lucky to have many debaters returning from the pervious year to help her ease into the new role. Prior to teaching here at Burlington-Edison, Mrs Christiansen also taught in Bellingham, as well as in Colorado.

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Kevin Smith - Assistant Coach

Kevin Smith is also a first year coach here at Burlington Edison. As assistant debate coach, Kevin helps students prepare for tounaments and learn about debate and speech theory. Kevin graduated in 2005, after debating for two years in Lincoln Douglas Debate and Interperative Reading. Since graduating, Kevin has helped the debate team in many ways. After Kevin graduated, he worked with the new debate coaches learning and adapting to the new atmosphere as well as judging for the team on a regular basis. Kevin is looking forward to an exciting year and the opportunity to be a part of debate once again.

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Terry Peters - Class Teacher

Mrs. Peters was the coach at Burlington-Edison High School for 4 years. Under her advising BEHS had 2 state champions. One in Policy debate, and one in Dramatic Interpretation. Besides debate, Mrs. Peters also enjoys teaching Sophomore English as well as a student favorite, Media. In 2005, Mrs. Peters decided to step down as Debate coach, but never really strayed that far away from the team. Due to the departure of the latest debate coach, Mrs. Peters once again took over the debate class in 2007-2008, introducing the idea of debate and logic into new students while simotaneously preparing, and introducing those students into the competitive aspect of debate and turning them over to the coaches.

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