Teachers
CLAIRE STERENBERG
HS ENGLISH TEACHER
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
I recently graduated from Calvin University and am excited to start my teaching career here at WMC! I’m the youngest of three kids to my two wonderful parents, Paul and Amy. I have a Welsh Corgi named Jenny and a calico cat named Gracie, both of whom rule the roost at the Sterenberg house.
Favorite Scripture:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life. And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Classes
Mythology and Science Fiction, English 11 and English 12.
Interests
On my days off I can be found reading, watching Survivor, or on the hunt for a good thrift find at Goodwill. This all happens with a vanilla latte in hand after a stop at Kin Coffee and Crafthouse in Holland! I’ve been known to tear up the pickleball courts in Holland with a couple of my good friends. I also have taken to gardening this summer and I’ve enjoyed getting to see my strawberries get eaten by every animal in the neighborhood. Cooking and baking have become an interest after living on my own in college and not having food magically show up at 5:30 every day. I enjoy music, especially singing.
