Mindy Pearson is a science teacher at Crown Point High School and is the science department chair along with an instructional coach. Pearson is actively coaching two soccer teams and a baseball team.
“I’m at the fields almost every night of the week, typically. I’m also on the Lake of Four Seasons, soccer board, and the baseball board, so I spend a lot of time volunteering all around,” Pearson said.
Along with bringing positivity and being a leader on the field, she also transfers this to her work by keeping the classroom moving and productive. Pearson also adds engaging labs that correlate with real life.
“Students engage in a lot of lab opportunities, and I try to make real-life connections with those lab opportunities. For example, in forensics they get to analyze their own fingerprints and compare them to their peers, or right now, we’re looking at hair where they get to analyze their own hair,” Pearson said.
Pearson’s teaching began outside of Crown Point. After teaching in Illinois, she relocated to Indiana with her husband; this decision led to her working in Crown Point and having fun with her job.
“I started working here in 2014, that was the year that I got married. I taught in Illinois before that, but my husband is from Indiana, so we moved to Crown Point, and I began working here, and it’s been a lot of fun,” Pearson said.
Since beginning her career at Crown Point High School, Pearson has balanced her role as not only a science teacher and a coach in soccer and baseball leagues, but also as a wife and a mother to her children. Despite all her roles, Pearson remains focused and positive through it all.
