Adult Education Staff

Crystal has been the Director of Carroll County Adult Education/ Carroll Academy for over 5 years now, before that, the Administrative Assistant. Her role extends as the Grant Writer for Friends of Carroll County Adult Tutorial Program and other non-profits throughout New England. Crystal has been NH’s Adult Education HiSET Mentor for 4 years and is also a member of the NH Adult Education Disabilities Committee. To better assist students, Crystal is a member of the Carroll County Regional Coordination Council committee, the Carroll County Providers Network group and the Carroll County Youth Suicide Prevention Team. She participates in the United Ossipee Round Table, Carroll County Responds to Substance Use Disorder Committee, Youth Substance Misuse Prevention and the Carroll County Public Health Advisory Committees.

Mark is a retired Naval Senior Chief Aircrewman, sensor operator on the P3C Orion Anti-Submarine warfare aircraft. He has Completed 13 overseas deployments, five as a contractor for manned and unmanned missions in and on various platforms. He is also a Certified Flight Instructor teaching primary students, advanced tailwheel and seaplane operations. Mark has served over four years as a Survival Evasion Resistance & Escape Instructor in Rangeley, Maine and is a plank owner of a Command that supports East coast Naval Special Warfare teams and other direct action elements.

Athena Contus, instructor of Modern Beekeeping & The Ancient Honey Bee, has been with Carroll Academy since 2019 while teaching and mentoring through New Hampshire’s beekeeping clubs in person, at the Tamworth classroom, and on Zoom during the pandemic. She has been raising bees in New Hampshire’s Sandwich Mountain Range for over 15 years. As a University of Hawaii graduate, Athena’s experience as an Adult Education Teacher began in the 80s & 90s with the Hawaii Department of Education at Kalaheo High in Kailua, Oahu, her home for 17 years. She taught and certified Hawaii state clerical workers through this program for their job & pay upgrade classification for eight years.

Deb has been the Online Class (Edmentum) Facilitator for Carroll Academy for several years and has also taught English for Carroll Academy. For her day job, she is the Special Education Department Secretary at Kennett High School; prior to that she worked at Kennett High School as a Paraprofessional. She is a a certified Paraeducator II and holds a Teacher Statements of Eligibilities in Drama and Secondary Social Studies and English.

Leslie teaches the HiSET Program at Carroll County Adult Education and is also the Administrative Assistant to the Director, Crystal Sawyer. As a New York State Certified Teaching Assistant, she has over 15 years’ experience in education including the General Education Diploma program which is the New York State version of HiSET. She has over 20 years’ experience as a Regional Administrative Assistant for a Non Profit Company with skills in administrative, management, training and organization. Leslie moved to NH in 2020 and worked at Ossipee Central Schools as a New Hampshire Registered Behavioral Specialist in grade 1. She transferred to her current position in 2021. Her goal is to create academically engaging learning experiences through a safe, relaxed, and encouraging environment.

Rick Faucher has been teaching for more than 30 years in English Language Arts, Computer hardware and software, and Career Counseling. Rick has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English teaching from University of New Hampshire and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts. He taught students with special needs at the Willow Hill School in Sudbury, MA for 15 years before moving to Bartlett seven years ago. He is currently a HiSET and English Second Language instructor for CCAE.

Beth Waugh started in September 2022 at Carroll County Academy. Beth retired from the Governor Wentworth School district in June. She was a special education teacher at Crescent Lake School from 2002 to 2014. She returned to Ossipee Central School, where she started her career as an assistant, in 2014 and 2022. Beth’s passion is reading and helping struggling students grow in their literacy skills. She went back to school in order to receiver her Reading/Writing Certification from Granite State College and in 2013 graduated from Plymouth State University with her Masters in Education with a concentration in Reading.

In her career, Beth has worked with students from preschool through sixth grade. Although she has enjoyed working with elementary students, she has always wanted to work with adult learners. She has truly enjoyed working at CCA this fall.

Don Campbell has worked in the computer field for over 30 years. Starting with desktop publishing, he moved into computer installation, repair, WiFi networks and in-home and classroom training.. He specializes in serving the computer needs of homeowners and small businesses. He can be found online at www.pc-handyman.net.