OUR STAFF
Signal Mountain Christian Co-op is led by board members and qualified faculty committed to supporting your family in providing an excellent Christ-centered middle school education for your child(ren). Each SMCC teacher has at least 8 years of teaching experience, with 2 teachers having taught more than 30 years each. Additionally, our 4 faculty members have more than 80 years combined teaching experience, in public and private schools, homeschools, and homeschool co-ops.
Each teacher is a passionate, lifelong learner, as well as a highly qualified and experienced teacher. Their great desire is to share their joy of learning with your children, in hopes of enticing and mentoring them to also become lifelong learners and lovers of God’s Word and His world.
SUE HUGHBANKS, Teacher
Math, Science, and Annual Enrichment Class
Sue teaches math, science, and enrichment classes for the co-op. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. In homeschooling her own children, she has taught all subjects from kindergarten through high school...
PAM FIELDS, Faculty Director
Latin I, History, Bible, Study Skills
Pam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with certifications in both Special Education and as a Reading Specialist. She has more than 40 years of experience as a teacher and an educational diagnostician/learning specialist, including 10 years ...
DANIELLE WILKIE, Teacher
Language Arts - Literature, Grammar, & Writing
Born in Iowa, raised on a dairy farm in Wisconson, I discovered that even the south is cold in winter at Covenant College. After falling in love with my husband and Chattanooga, we settled in Tennessee and have filled our home with 5 children...
DIANA HAYES, Teacher
Latin I
I have degrees from Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and Arizona Christian University. I have worked in education for 25 plus years in homeschool settings and in 2nd through 6th grades in two classical Christian schools...