UEA, Davis UniServ announce staff changes

Amber Schwartz is the new Director of Teaching and Learning, and UniServ Program Coordinator for the Utah Education Association. She replaces Kaye Chatterton who retired earlier this year. Schwartz worked as a UniServ director for the Davis Education Association from 2004 through 2007. From 1997 until her move to Utah, Schwartz was a seventh-grade teacher in the Oak Harbor School District in the state of Washington. She taught reading, language arts, and social studies.

Schwartz is a graduate of Oak Harbor High School and the University of Washington, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. She has also done post-graduate work at Western Washington University. She has her elementary certification and an M.Ed in School Leadership.

Schwartz says working in the Association allows her to deal with issues “close to my heart . . . those that directly impact the classroom.”

Sheri Sauvé has been hired by the DEA as Associate UniServ Director. From August 1987 through August 2007, Sauvé taught fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in the Davis School District. She spent 13 of those years in the district’s full-time Gifted and Talented program, known as “Spectrum.”

Sauvé is a graduate of Sky View High School and attended Brigham Young University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Utah.

A native of Carmel, California, Sauvé lists as her proudest accomplishments raising a daughter who is teaching high school, and 20 years of successful teaching. She was named Davis District Teacher of the Year in 1997. Sauvé fulfilled a lifelong dream last spring when she performed on Broadway in “The 26th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Sauvé says she likes UniServ work because she “enjoys seeing the ‘birds eye view’ of the school district . . . and helping good teachers in bad situations.”