Shane Woodcock – Athletic Director and Physical Education – earned his B.S. in Physical Education from Eureka College and M.S. in Sports Administration from Eastern Illinois University. This is Mr. Woodcock’s sixth year at Countryside. Through his creativity and enthusiasm about physical education, he has grown our program with several new activities. Mr. Woodcock established our archery program, archery summer camp, and the First Tee Golf program. He founded our ever-popular Annual Color Run and more recently, our Countryside Golf Outing. In addition to serving as our Athletic Director, Mr. Woodcock coaches Countryside’s boys’ basketball team, coed soccer team, and the archery club. He is also a Middle School Advisor.

Dee Chapman - Computer Programming (middle school) – is an iOS developer with years of experience in education. She earned both her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and established a career at the University developing a virtual reality system with Caterpillar. In addition she has developed virtual reality applications for education and research through the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In 2008 she co-founded a K-12 educational cooperative where she has taught and designed curriculum for a variety of classes including computer science. Mrs. Chapman has been a Girls Who Code facilitator at the University of Illinois and worked to develop and program online educational content for MacMillan Publishers. She has developed numerous websites, is a freelance programmer, and is also the parent of Countryside alumni.

Erika Mennig – Music – has a Master of Music Education from the University of Illinois. In addition she has a Bachelor of Music Education (choral), a Bachelor of Music in Open Studies (music business), and a Bachelor of Music in Fine Arts (piano performance) – all from the University of Illinois. Ms. Mennig previously taught music and directed the choir both at Edison Middle School in Champaign and in Rantoul. She is the head volleyball coach at Urbana High School and is Countryside's girls' volleyball coach. In addition, she owns her own music studio giving private lessons in both piano and voice.

Katherine Tock – Music – received both her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois. She has also done extensive studies in piano pedagogy at the University of Illinois. Mrs. Tock has been a freelance pianist for many years as well as accompanying musicals, choirs, and soloists throughout the area. She also taught group piano classes and music appreciation at Parkland College while maintaining her own private piano studio. Katherine Tock is the Director of Music Ministry at Mahomet United Methodist Church.

Jaclyn Loewenstein – Performing Arts (4th - 8th grade) – is the artistic director and owner of Class Act, a Champaign-based performing arts studio. Since 1992, she has worked professionally as a theater director, instructor, and private acting coach in Chicago, NYC and Austin. Over the past decade, Ms. Jacki has directed local productions for Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company (CUTC), Urbana’s Station Theatre, and CUTC’s Penguin Project, a program featuring young people with disabilities paired with peer mentors. She received her B.A. in Journalism from UNC–Chapel Hill and her MFA in Directing from Illinois State University in Normal, IL. In addition, Ms. Jacki was our guest director for Countryside’s 8th grade production of Into the Woods, Jr. in 2016.

Brooke Kim – Visual Arts (all grades) and Moventures (kindergarten - 3rd grade) – received her B.A in Art Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She taught art at Robeson Elementary School and has been a summer art camp leader at the Urbana Park District. In addition, Ms. Kim student taught at schools in Mahomet, at Centennial High School in Champaign, and at the Saturday Art School at the University of Illinois. Ms. Kim’s volunteer experience includes teaching bible study and volunteering with the homeless in Osaka, Japan, and leading weekly bible study discussions for college and graduate students locally.

Eileen Chen – Chinese (kindergarten - middle school) – is a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and also speaks English and Japanese. She completed her B.A. at Tamkang University, Taiwan, and holds an M.S. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Nazareth College, Rochester, NY. She earned a Certification of Advanced Study and an M. Ed. in Human Resource Education from the University of Illinois. In addition, Mrs. Chen holds a certification of TESOL from the University of California - Irvine. Mrs. Chen taught Chinese in Chinese schools in California, New York, and Illinois, and she taught English as a foreign language at schools in Taiwan. Mrs. Chen has twice been rewarded an excellent teacher award by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office. She is the proud parent of a Countryside alumnus, and she hopes to go back to teach languages in underprivileged areas of China after she retires.

Whitney McComas – Latin (4th grade - middle school) – graduated from the U of I with both her B.S. in Classics with a concentration in Latin and her M.A. in Classics with a specialization in Latin. While pursuing her Masters in teaching, she was recognized by her university students for excellence in teaching. Ms. McComas has tutored Latin, student-taught at Victor Andrew High School in Tinley Park, IL, and has taught summer language camp for children ages 9-12 at the University of Illinois. Ms. McComas is in her seventh year teaching at Countryside.

Gloria Arizaga – Spanish (kindergarten – middle school) – is originally from Mexico City, Mexico, and moved to the United States in 2001. She received her Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the Escuela de Periodismo "Carlos Septién García" and Associates degree in Public Policies from the Instituto Nacional de Administración Pública de Queretaro. She is currently a freelance writer specializing in Economy and Finance for CNN's Expansión magazine and worked previously as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers. For nine years she was the coordinator of Nuevos Horizontes, a Spanish-language radio program produced by the University of Illinois Extension, where she also developed an oral comprehension course for Spanish AP students in high school. In addition to being a Spanish tutor for several years, she taught Spanish as a Second Language for K-8th grade for three years prior to joining Countryside. She has a daughter in our middle school.