Essentials Team
Art
Hola, I'm Ms. G (aka: Ms. Gallegos). I'm very excited to be part of the Midland "Essentials" Specials team. These past 26 years I've enjoyed teaching all ages (pre-K through college) and in a variety of subjects - but my favorite of all is Art. Quite often I secretly teach math, science, and literacy....through Art, but shhhh, don't tell the kids. They think they're just having fun. 🙂
I'm a Colorado native but grew up in New Mexico so I proudly claim dual-stateship. My hobbies include Art, rock collecting, baking, and ....and ....and....I just always love learning new things. Y si, soy un poco bilingue en Ingles y Espanol. (And yes, I'm a bilingual in both English and Spanish).
Music
Ms. Anna Lincoln
In addition to a career in teaching, I have also made theatrical performance and storytelling part of my livelihood. I have always loved to be on stage and am so grateful to be able to share that love with the students of Colorado Springs School District 11. You may have seen me on stage with the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Theatreworks of Colorado Springs and as an independent performer at various other performance venues in town. As a lover of music, it is nearly impossible for me to pick a favorite style, however, my favorite genre of music to sing is Jazz, and my favorite musical at the moment is Into the Woods.
Greetings and salutations!
I am Anna Lincoln, and I am thrilled to be joining the Midland Elementary Essentials team as the music teacher! In addition to teaching at Midland, I will also be teaching drama and theatre at Rudy Elementary School this year. I was born and raised in Colorado Springs, and I have my bachelors degree in Visual and Performing Arts from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where I was distinguished as the Most Outstanding Undergraduate Student in my class for my work in Theatre.Though this is my first year as a teacher in the public school system, I made caring for children a career at the age of 16 as a lifeguard and daycamp counselor, and began teaching theatre, dance, and music at the age of 18. My background in music lies heavily in the realm of Musical Theatre, though I also play clarinet, saxophone, ukulele and piano.
When I am not teaching or performing, I can be found rock climbing with my friends and loving partner, Sean, at City Rock (or outdoors!), hiking the Colorado 14ers, loving on my two spoiled cats, floral designing/caring for plants, baking and playing chess!
P.E.
I left Hanover in 2018 and have been substitute teaching and working at Domino's Pizza as a delivery driver for 3 years. I have been married for 26 years to my beautiful wife Jackie, and have two daughters, Keagan (24) and Kylee (21). I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to continue my teaching career here at Midland, where I plan on having lots of fun with the students in PE Class.
Hello. My name is Mark Gracy and I am very pleased to be teaching at Midland Elementary this school year. I was born in Canton, Ohio (1966) and my family moved to Colorado Springs in 1973. I attended school at Penrose, Sabin and graduated in 1984 from Doherty HS. While at Doherty I ran Cross Country, High Jump in Track, and JV Basketball my sophomore year, Varsity during my junior and senior years. I was also in the Chamber Choir. After graduating, I was recruited to play college basketball at the College of Great in Great Falls Montana but broke by foot and redshirted. The basketball program folded and I transferred to Wayne State College in Wayne Nebraska where I played basketball for two seasons. I started my basketball coaching career as an assistant at Pender HS in Pender, NE.
I graduated college in 1989 and came back to Colorado Springs where I was an assistant basketball coach at Doherty HS and started my teaching career as a paraprofessional at Sabin. I have taught and coached at DeBeque, Wasson, and was at Hanover ES/MS/HS for 22 years where I was the head boys basketball coach. I also coached Volleyball, MS track, and was the Athletic Director for five years.