Stargate School - Administration

Sharon Kenyon has extensive educational experience in Wyoming, California and Arizona that spans eighteen years as an Elementary Teacher, two years as a Curriculum Specialist and seventeen years in Administration. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Wyoming and a Masters of Arts in Educational Administration from Arizona State University.

During her administration at both the elementary and junior high levels, she guided her schools to achieve the Arizona Educational Foundation’s A+ School Award, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Blue Ribbon Award, repetitive Arizona Department of Education ‘Arizona Learns Excelling ‘ labels and the Arizona Tribute-Chamber of Commerce Administrative Educational Leadership Award. Her community leadership has included serving as the Chairman of the Board for the YMCA, as a North Central Accreditation Circle of Excellence Chair, and an Arizona Educational Foundation School Recognition Judge.

To model professional and personal accountability, she subscribes to the quote “Your work is your signature; autograph it with excellence”. She finds it exciting and rewarding to be the leader of Stargate and advocating for gifted children. Any free time is spent with her husband hiking, biking and camping in the great outdoors, traveling, attending the classical arts, playing the piano or curling up with a great book. Her ‘very special joys’ center on two talented granddaughters and two pampered King Charles Cavaliers!

Mr. Cochran is a proud product of the Adams 12 school district. He attended Leroy Drive Elementary, Northglenn Middle School, and graduated from Thornton High School in 2001. Mr. Cochran followed his love of athletics and played both Baseball and Football at Nebraska Wesleyan University. After a brief professional football career with the Lincoln Capitals, (formerly of the National Indoor Football League) he moved back to Colorado and student taught at Legacy High School. He began teaching Physical Education at Stargate in December of 2004. Mr. Cochran completed his MA Ed. in the winter of 2006 from the University of Phoenix and has been in the role of Assistant Principal since March of 2007.

To those who know him, “Mr. C” has been an educator at Stargate for five years. Mr. Cochran implemented Stargate’s Interscholastic Athletic program four years ago. It has grown to encompass five sports, sixty percent student participation, and his goal is to inspire the athletes to bring home a League Championship in all sports for the inaugural season of the Middle School Athletic Conference (MAC).

You can usually find “Mr. C” wearing a goofy wig or outfit trying to promote school spirit. He is engaged to a lovely Nebraska native and has a baby on the way in March 2010. He is also able to complete the 7 minute Abs workout in five minutes.

Kathryn Kyd is originally from Michigan, but she has lived in many different places throughout her life including two years on an Indian reservation. Her education includes a BS in Special Education and Psychology from Central Michigan University, graduate work at Michigan State University in such things as open classrooms, learning-centered classrooms, learning disabilities, and creative dramatics, and a Masters in Gifted Education from Columbia College in Missouri.

She taught Special Education and first grade in Michigan for several years. She then married and homeschooled her four gifted children, became involved in alternative education, and even started a school with parents called Wellspring in Columbia, Missouri. She has taught at most grade levels. After receiving her Masters in Gifted Education, she taught the Twice-Exceptional Gifted Program at the Center for Gifted Education in Missouri, and taught courses in Gifted and Special Education at Columbia College as a guest instructor.

She then became the Coordinator for Gifted Education K-12 for the North Callaway Public Schools in Missouri. At this point, she moved back to Colorado because three out of her four daughters live in Glenwood Springs and wanted her closer. She became a Gifted Facilitator for K-5 with Mesa County Public Schools. And she is now delighted to be the Gifted Specialist/Coordinator for Stargate School here in the Denver area. She has always supported and encouraged the creativity and giftedness in children and adults – You could call anything "gifted or creative" her passion.