The flexibility of substitute teaching appealed to Dolores de Vera after she moved to Tucson from Missouri over a decade ago. The hours fit her schedule. The students and her coworkers were fun and she learned the city through her school assignments. Fellow substitute teacher Jerry Schuster grew up in the Tucson Unified School District. […]
Author Archives: Shannon Conner
Shannon Conner is the education solutions reporter for Arizona Luminaria supported by a grant from the Arizona Local News Fund.
A reporter and editor, Shannon’s work has appeared in sports and news sections of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and the Arizona Daily Star. As a reporter, she’s covered the Olympic Trials, NFL and Final Fours, high school cross country and almost everything in between.
Shannon brings years of first-hand experience to the education beat: Parenting two kids in public and charter schools; participating for more than a decade in parent-teacher organizations; and teaching for 12 years as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona.
Raised in New Mexico, Shannon is a semi-retired cross-country coach for K-8 runners, a Boston Marathon finisher and a certified yoga instructor. She raises a family, runs trails and reports in the Sonoran Desert.
