Chapel Hill has welcomed another married couple from Greensboro to its faculty this year.
Joining Jade and Karyn Dickerson, math teacher Kimberly Newman and biomedical science teacher Lewis Newman have transitioned to working at Chapel Hill High School together. The couple shares a combined 45 years of teaching experience.
Lewis Newman previously taught at Grimsley High School under Principal Charles Blanchard, and Kimberly Newman worked at Kiser Middle School.
Though Kimberly Newman did not always want to be a math instructor—she said she wanted to teach “anything but sixth grade and anything but math”—she embarked on her career as a middle-school math teacher.
Her job teaching sixth-grade math clicked with her, she said, because she remembers how much she struggled with math before high school. Helping others going through a similar struggle has made Newman feel more connected to her job.
Newman now teaches Math I at Chapel Hill. Her freshman student Dayani Sanchez said Newman is helpful and attentive as a teacher.
“She asks if you need more questions,” Sanchez said. “She helps you understand.”
Freshman Ty Holeman added, “I like how she offers help after school when we need it.”
Lewis Newman is employed as a teacher of Principles of Biomedical Sciences and Emergency Medical Technicians but has taught many other courses, including “physical education, sports medicine, adaptive physical education, advanced physical education and weight-training.”
In addition, Newman assists as a weightlifting supervisor after school and substitutes for various coaches.
Newman said he “started off, really, in the Army, then I was with the Navy, then I went to physician assistant school at the Medical College of Georgia. Then I did my [physician assistant] school residency at Duke in cardiothoracic surgery.”
Kimberly Newman has been asked to help with Operation Smile, an organization specializing in raising money to help children born with a cleft palate.
The Newmans recently moved into town with their four children, after nearly six months of commuting from Greensboro. Their daughter Anna is a freshman at the school.
