About Us


Kellie Burns

Dr. Kellie Burns

Dr. Kellie Burns is the District Executive Officer at the Yavapai Accommodation School District. Prior to becoming DEO, she was the Dean of Students at YASD from July 2014 to February 2016. She was born and raised in Sturgis, South Dakota and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Black Hills State University in Spearfish, SD in 2000. Shortly after college graduation, she moved with her family to Holbrook, Arizona, where she taught 4th grade for five years. In 2005, she and her family moved to Seligman, Arizona, where she taught a variety of grade levels and subject areas for nine years. She earned her ELL Certification in 2005 and Master’s in Administrative Leadership and Supervision in 2009 from the University of Phoenix. She earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership with Northern Arizona University in May 2023. She serves on four professional boards: the Forest Fees Management Association, the Yavapai County Education Foundation, the Arizona Correctional Educators Board and the Arizona Alternative Education Consortium.. She is a proud wife, mother of three and grandmother of three. She currently resides in Paulden with her family and brood of animals on the family hobby farm.

Ginger Flaumenhaft

Ginger Flaumenhaft

Ginger Flaumenhaft is the Vice Principal at Yavapai Accommodation School District. She earned her Master’s degree in Education at California State University, Los Angeles and was a Seabee in the United States Navy before using her G.I. bill to go to college to become a teacher. She has worked in education for more than 15 years.

In her free time, she enjoys traveling to new places, trying new recipes, and spending time with her family.

Karen McClellan

Karen McClellan

Karen McClellan is the Business Manager at the Yavapai Accommodation School District where she is responsible for state reporting and student information systems district wide. She was born in Crown King, Arizona and has lived in Prescott most of her life. She graduated from Prescott High School and later Southwest Institute of Trichology. She married her high school sweetheart, had three children and eventually moved on to education where she has remained for the last sixteen years. She is a current AASBO member and Arizona Correctional Educators member, earning their prestigious 2017 award of Outstanding Correctional Professional of the Year. She has also served as Vice President of the Arizona Association of Special Education Providers and Arizona Certified Surrogate Parent for disadvantaged students. Karen is adept at communicating with adolescents. She has also served on NCA Steering committees at two different schools. Tim Carter, Yavapai County Superintendent, recently gave her the honorary award “Director of First Impressions” because of her friendly and approachable demeanor.

Cherri Redd

Cherri Redd

Cherri Redd is the science teacher at Yavapai Accommodation School District. In 2018, Ms. Redd started the first Student Council that our school had ever had. She felt giving the students a voice in their education was important. When she is asked about working at our school, she states, “I love my job here!”. 

Cherri graduated from Tarleton State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education in 1986, and received a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Grand Canyon University in 2011. 

She has taught in Arizona since 2003.  Cherri also taught for three years in Hawaii.  The subjects she has taught range from Agricultural  Education, Biology, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Anatomy and Physiology. She feels that commitment at YASD to her students is her highest priority. She, along with the rest of the staff, believe that all students will succeed in their career choices and she aims to help them achieve those goals.

When Ms. Redd isn’t at school you can often find her out on the local horse trails or arenas with her wonderful horse she calls Bug. Riding has been a lifelong endeavor and she has competed in Western and English styles of riding, where she was in the top 20 youth in American Paint Horse competitions as a youngster. Lately she has tried her hand at Team Sorting, Barrels, and Pole Bending. She agrees with President Ronald Regan, “There's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

Shauna Barraza

Shawna O'Brien

Shawna is the Specialized Instruction Teacher at YASD.  More information about her coming soon!

 

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is the social studies teacher at YASD. He was born and raised in Gilbert, Arizona. He has been married for 46 years and has seven children and sixteen grandchildren. Paul owned and operated a truck until he was about 30 years old, and then moved on to work for an asphalt supply company for seven years. At the age of 37, he decided to go back to school and graduated at the age of 40 with a teaching certificate. At the age of 58, he received his Master’s degree in administration. He lived and taught in Alaska for four years, and still has a home there. Before coming to the Yavapai Accommodation School District, he taught for three years on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Fun fact: Paul has driven the Alcan Highway four times.

Jessica Marks

Jessica Marks

Jessica Marks earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism and worked as an award-winning professional newspaper reporter in California before she went back to school to become a teacher. She also has a master's degree in English Education and another master's degree in Social Work, so she can meet the unique learning needs of all students. 

She has taught all over the Prescott Valley area, teaching in charter schools and public schools, middle schools and high schools.  She’s worked in co-taught classrooms, honors and AP classrooms, and everything in between. She’s coached archery, run the yearbook, organized out-of-state and international field trips, all while making sure that students are learning and having fun. She was titled 2017’s Yavapai County Overall Teacher of the Year when she worked at Glassford Hill Middle School where she designed a community service organization, started a peer-tutoring program, ran the student newspaper, and headed the honor society in addition to having her students achieve the top AZ Merit test scores in the school.

Jessica loves kayaking, yoga, eating at In-N-Out Burger, writing, and taking naps in hammocks – especially by the beach.

Karen Campbell

Karen Campbell

Karen Campbell is so happy to be the math teacher at Yavapai Accommodation School District.  She has been teaching and tutoring math and science for high school and college students for more than 30 years.  Karen graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelors of Science in Pre-Medicine and a Minor in Mathematics.   Instead of going to medical school she decided to raise a family and has never regretted that decision.  She has 5 grown children, 3 in-law children, and two grandchildren.  

 As her family grew Karen started working as a Micro-biologist for Bradshaw/Labcorp. After 7 years, she decided to teach again when they closed the micro department in Prescott.  Karen received her post-bachelors degree in teaching through Rio Salado while teaching for Prescott Unified School district starting in 2012.  In 2016 Karen finished her Masters in Human Anatomy and Physiology Instruction through New York Chiropractic College.  Karen also has special Mathematical Modeling and Formative Assessment training through NAU in conjunction with 9 credits from Ottawa University. 

 Besides teaching, Karen loves singing, gardening, the scriptures and the stars.   She has been married for 32 wonderful years. Most of which has been spent in Prescott.   “As I leave Prescott High School, I am excited to get to know all of the great students in this district, and work with the outstanding people I have met so far.”  

 “It is a proven fact that math makes you smarter… so really… It’s the only subject that “counts.”    Let’s get smarter together!

Gena Hatfield

Gena Hatfield

Gena Hatfield is a math teacher at Yavapai Accommodation School District. She has been teaching at a variety of schools in Yavapai County for the past 20 years. Prior to coming to Yavapai Accommodation School, Gena was a special education teacher for 20 years, specializing in students with Emotional Disabilities and Learning Disabilities in math.

Prior to teaching, she retired from the US Air Force, where she did a variety of jobs including fighter jet maintenance and budget management.  While in the Air Force, Gena was deployed to Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm, where she worked on A-10 aircraft.

Gena has a Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, teaching certification classes at Chapman University, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership and Administration from Jones International University. She is certified to teach K-12 in both Special Education and General Education Mathematics.

Lisa Moser

Lisa Moser

Lisa graduated from college in her home state of Nebraska in 1994 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education with a Mathematics endorsement from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She finished her Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology in 2003 at Northwest Missouri State University.  

She is currently serving as the teacher for the Transition program for Yavapai Accommodation School District. Lisa served 28 years in education prior to joining the YASD family. Her experiences are many, as she has held a mathematics teaching certificate in Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Arizona. While most of her experiences were in private residential schools, she has had great experiences in the public sector as well. While teaching for HUSD, Lisa was named Humboldt Education Foundation’s Teacher of the Year for middle and high school age groups in 2018.

When she’s not at school, she enjoys kayaking, hiking, and spending time with her three incredible children.

Cheryl Taylor

Cheryl Taylor

Cheryl Taylor was born and raised in northern Michigan, and received a degree in agricultural communications from Michigan State University. She moved to Arizona to work for Leach Publications as an editor and layout artist. Later she moved to the Prescott area when she was hired by Livestock Communications, a livestock advertising and publishing agency. In 1998 she earned a teaching certificate in special education through Northern Arizona University, eventually earning a masters from that school. She taught at Glassford Hill Middle School in Prescott Valley from 1998 to 2013, and then at Mayer High School from 2013 to 2015, specializing in working with children with emotional and behavioral disabilities. For the past two years she has worked as an instructional aide with the Yavapai Accommodation School District, while also working on her own business in publishing, photography and writing.

Chris Fonoti

Chris Fonoti

Chris Fonoti was born and raised in New England and grew up in historic Wethersfield, CT, the oldest town in the state.  She graduated from Bates College in Maine with a degree in biology.  She later moved to Cocoa Beach, FL where she learned to surf and taught middle school science. At the time, NASA provided free field trips to Cape Canaveral where she was allowed to enter the VAB, the huge building where rockets were constructed.  It was so tall that air conditioning had to be installed because it formed its own weather, rain, daily.  She then moved to California for a few months, prior to moving to Hawaii where she spent 30 years teaching high school biology, playing soccer, surfing and racing outrigger canoe in a local club.  Her canoe team was among the first women's teams to participate in the Molokai to Oahu race. She received her Master's in Ed Admin from the U of Hawaii and served as Vice Principal at Waianae HS and Principal of Ka'ewai El in Honolulu. Chris moved to AZ to be co-principal at Greyhills Academy, an all-native high school in Tuba City, then to Ely, NV as Vice Principal.  She moved back to AZ and served as Principal at Cromer El in Flagstaff.  She taught at Prescott High School., retired and has been substituting in PUSD, Humboldt and YASD.  She is very happy to be selected to serve at the YASD Transition School.  She has equines, dogs and a mini pig.  Happy days on the farm.