Teachers

This is Mrs. Brown's 3rd year teaching at Granger High School. She graduated from UVU with her bachelors in English Education. She grew up outside of Dallas, Texas, and cannot tell you how excited she is to go to ALL of Granger's football games. Mrs. Brown loves spending time with friends and family (who doesn't?), shopping, reading and writing (obviously), art, interior design, baking, throwing tea parties, and just making the world around her more beautiful.  Ninth grade year is going to be delightful. She cannot wait to help all of her students get to be even better readers and writers than they were before. Cheers to the Class of 2021!  Mrs. Brown is also the new SBO advisor and in charge of Lancer Legislature.  If you are interested in being a class officer you can apply to run for office in the spring. If you wish to be a part of Lancer Legislature you can join at any time. Lancer Legislature meets every Tuesday at 2:20 pm in Mrs. Brown’s room, H206.

Mr. Coon grew up in West Valley City and graduated from Cyprus High School. He earned an Associate of Arts and Science degree from Brigham Young University--Idaho; a Bachelor of Science in English, a minor in psychology, and Utah teaching credentials from Utah State University; and a Masters of Education degree from Westminster College. He has also earned a Masters of Science in Computer Science degree from Neumont College of Computer Science. Living in New Zealand, with its rich diversity, gave Mr. Coon a deep appreciation for the families, food, and languages of people from all around the world. He has earned the English as a Second Language (ESL) endorsement through Weber State University. Many Granger High students know more than one language. Mr. Coon enjoys helping them add English to their lists.

Mrs. Fichialos earned her bachelors in anthropology from the University of Utah in 2000. She also completed a general education teaching program in ’04 at the U. Mrs. Fichialos obtained her special education degree from Utah State in ’05 and her masters in school counseling from the University of Phoenix in ’09. She began teaching in 2004 with all but two of those years here at Granger. In her free time, Mrs. Fichialos enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, shopping, reading, gardening, and sleeping.

After spending 13 years in Junior High School at Valley, Mr. Chris Gibbons joined Granger High School in 2013. Prior to that he taught at a High School in Washington State and at a K-8 Elementary School in Tennessee. He has raised 5 beautiful daughters and enjoys cooking elaborate meals for when they all return to celebrate the holidays. In addition to cooking, he also enjoys hiking and photography, and has been kicking around the idea of starting a food blog, simply because it would give him the excuse to eat more often!

Mr. Locey earned his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts in English, Spanish, and Secondary Education at BYU where he was also a captain of the cheer squad. He started his Granite School District career teaching at Kearns Jr. After moving to Hunter High, he graduated with a Master of Education in Instructional Design and Educational Technology from the U of U. Though Mr. Locey is an English teacher, he loves the mechanical world. He can usually be found riding a dirt bike in the summer time. Having had type II diabetes, he needed to be physically active, so he spends a good bit of time in the gym, too. Mr. Locey beat diabetes in 2012. He loves languages, speaks Spanish, German, and Pig Latin.

Ms. Czapla has taught at Granger since 2011 and wouldn't want to teach anywhere else. She loves to read books, garden, play cards and games, hike, and travel.

Ms. Emily Parrish has been teaching English at Granger High since 2010.  She teaches AP English, Concurrent enrollment English 1010, and College Prep English.  She enjoys reading, writing, talking about reading and writing, and teaching about reading and writing. She graduated with both her bachelor’s and her master’s degrees from Utah State University and has been teaching for 20+ years.

Ms. Roberts has taught English at Granger High since 2014, and loves getting acquainted with students and watching them grow as readers and writers. Ms. Roberts has lived in Seattle, New York City, Alaska and Utah. She loves all things British as far as movies and television are concerned. Her fondest dream is to one day visit Paris to look at the art and architecture, and to use her rusty French.

Mr. Tuckness was born in Las Vegas and went to high school in St. George.  At Dixie High, he lettered in basketball, baseball and tennis and caught the drama bug that lasted for the next 50 years. He graduated from four schools: Dixie, SUU, BYU, and finally received  a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from  the University of Utah in 1979. He has worked as an actor, director, and producer in over 300 major  stage productions. His favorite acting role was  Arthur in "Camelot" favorite directing was Shakespear's "A Mid Summer Nights Dream". Mr. Tuckness started teaching 42 years ago, in that time he has taught  High School Drama and Debate, and was a College professor, and administrator. This is his third year as Granger Debate Coach.  He received the Outstanding Teacher Award at Cottonwood High, The Teacher  Of The Year in Theatre and Speech  for the State of Utah , and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Murray Arts Council.His loves are travel, he just finished 60 years of visits to Disneyland, Fantasy Baseball, has eight teams, but his great love is family. He is married to Amber Tuckness, the Instrumental Music Teacher at Cottonwood. He has four children Tynan age four , Abriel age eleven, and two older kids,Joshua and Tara who have given him five grandchildren. So, Go Granger, Go Granger Debate, and Go Utes!!