Education: B.S. in K-6 Education | M.Ed. in Counseling
Accolades: Teacher of the Year 2002-Wilson Middle School
About: Wes is the Assistant Director of College Access Services for App State GEAR UP. Prior to joining App State, Wes worked as the senior counselor in a GEAR UP high school in western North Carolina. Wes has 22 years of experience in public education, both in the classroom and as a counselor. The majority of his teaching and counseling experience was in urban Title 1 schools, with an emphasis on School Turnaround processes. He has worked every grade from kindergarten to 12th in some capacity, and was an MTSS specialist for two years as well. Wes is published in the area of peer mediation and has professional presentations about MTSS, peer mediation, building a Counselor Network and mitigating the impact of trauma on postsecondary access to his credit.
