Middletown Prairie Elementary - Home of the Bulldogs

Jana Raver is excited to kick off her second year in “Action Based Learning,” an amazing brain science-based course added to the MPE Encore schedule last year that combines phys...

Mrs. Penick has worked as a special educator for 18 years in Mahomet-Seymour and Champaign. She also spent 8 years as the Penick family CEO raising her children...

Jeannette Hulick is beginning her fourth year as the teacher librarian for Middletown Prairie Elementary School. Raised in Mahomet, Champaign, and Sidney, and now living in Tol...

Mrs. Fritz is a second grade teacher at Middletown Prairie Elementary. She has worked at Sangamon and MPE for 20 years. Gay lives in Mahomet with her husband Rob. They moved ...

Tara will be starting her 12th year as a speech-language pathologist in the Mahomet-Seymour school district. She splits her time between MPE, the high school and ATLAS. Tara and...

Karen McHale is beginning her 2 nd year as a reading specialist and instructional coach at Middletown Prairie. This will be Mrs. McHale’s 20th year of teaching. Through th...

Hi Mahomet-Seymour Families! Kortny Cox is the Whole Body Health and Wellness teacher at MPE. This will be Mrs. Cox’s first year teaching at MPE, but her fifteenth year teachi...

Jessica Haskett is a first grade teacher at Middletown Prairie. This is her 14th year teaching. Before coming to Mahomet schools, she taught in Champaign schools for 11 years i...

Cindy Krumwiede teaches kindergarten in the penguin room. This will be her 25th year working in the Mahomet-Seymour schools! Before landing in kindergarten, she worked at Middl...

Meet Laurie Pulkrabek, lovingly known as Mrs. P. She is a paraprofessional who has touched many lives while working in the Mahomet Seymour School district. Mrs. P. will start h...

Heather Jackson is a first grade teacher at Middletown Prairie. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and earned a ...

Tracy Wade is a kindergarten teacher at Middletown Prairie. This will be her 25th year teaching. She taught preschool special education in Urbana for 10 years, taught preschoo...

Melinda Douglas is starting her 12th year teaching Physical Education in Mahomet. She has taught high school PE, Health, Drivers Education, and elementary PE. Mrs. Douglas lives...

Ms. Julie Ditmars is the School Social Worker here at Middletown Prairie Elementary. This is her 7th year in the Mahomet School District. Her favorite activities at MPE are joinin...

Mickey Gilbert teaches pre K in the Turtle room at MPE. She has worked with children since she was in high school, and she enjoys creating environments that are educational and ...

Angie Pagel is a kindergarten teacher at Middletown Prairie in the “Squirrel” classroom. This will be her 20th year in the district. Before teaching kindergarten, she taught first...

Stefani Piening is a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing at MPE and this will be her second year as a Bulldog, previously having served at Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska f...

Collette Oprondek is a first grade teacher at MPE. This is her eighth year in the Mahomet-Seymour school district. Before that, Mrs. Oprondek taught in the Chicago suburbs for ei...

Hello Mahomet-Seymour Families! Emily McGill is one of our second grade teachers at MPE! She is from Mahomet and proud to be a Bulldog! Mrs. McGill graduated from The University...

Meg Jones is a second grade teacher at MPE. She has been teaching second grade in the district for 14 years. Mrs. Jones lives in Monticello with her husband, Chris. They have a ...