Contact Information
| Phone: | (505) 599-9390 |
| Fax: | (505) 599-9395 |
| Monday: | 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Tuesday: | 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Wednesday: | 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Thursday: | 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Friday: | By Appointment |
| Saturday: | 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
| Sunday: | Closed |
Meet the Tutors
Our Sylvan trained and certified tutors are dedicated to your child’s success. Working together with you, we will:
- Pinpoint your child’s learning needs using the Sylvan Skills Assessment®
- Develop a personalized learning plan based on your child’s goals
- Offer unique insights about what will work for your child
- Teach each lesson the way your child learns best
- Build a relationship with your child to provide learning that’s fun, engaging and rewarding
Pruda Trujillo
Executive Director
Pruda graduated from Indiana University with a BA in History and a Secondary Education Certification. She returned to school at New Mexico State University where she earned a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Special Education. Pruda has been a teacher for 11 years at Kirtland Middle School, Aztec Public Schools and Nenahnezad BIA school.
Lahra Byrne
Director of Education
Lahra is an Educational Professional who brings to our Farmington Sylvan a true love for teaching. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with an Elementary Education degree and taught for 5 years in the Southeast. We are privileged and honored to have Lahra as a member of our staff. Her previous experience as a Sylvan Director Of Education in Florida is another asset that the Farmington Sylvan has to share with our community.
Reagan Barney
Administrative Assistant
Reagan attended college at SUSC in Cedar City, Utah. She moved to Colorado in 1986 where she finished her directorship in Early Education at CNCC in Craig Colorado. Reagan taught pre-school for Moffat County School District for five years. She moved to Farmington in January, 2001. Her hobbies are boating, water skiing, golfing, reading, quilting, and baking.
Reagan handles billing questions as well as scheduling conferences and classes.
Sandy Hopkins
Test Administrator
Sandy graduated from Fort Lewis College with a BS in science and teaching credentials. After teaching in Shiprock at the Alternative School, she began coursework for a Masters of Education Degree at New Mexico State University in 1997. She taught in Shiprock for 4 years then at Nenahnezad Community School for 5 years before becoming an administrator. She retired in July of 2003 from BIA and is very happy to be with the Sylvan group.
Carol Valdez
Master Instructor
Carol graduated from New Mexico State University and later attended the University of New Mexico where she earned a Masters Degree in Elementary Education.She has taught K-8 and has been involved with several special programs such as: Title 1 Remedial Reading, Bilingual Education and worked on the Navajo Reservation through BIA schools. Her hobbies include fishing, camping, sewing, gardening, and studying herbs.
Kathy Eveland
Master Instructor
Kathy graduated from Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, Nebraska, with a B.A. in Education. She received her Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and taught for 8 years in Schuyler, Nebraska before moving to Farmington. Kathy is certified to teach all Sylvan programs and was one of the ten finalists in 2002 for Sylvan’s National Teacher of the Year.
Carol Stevenson
Master Instructor
Carol S. graduated from the University of Marywood in Scranton, PA with a Bachelor's degree in Science and a Masters in Reading. She has ESL and Administration certifications. She taught many levels... Kindergarten through College. She has family in New York, New Jersey, and Arizona. She lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maryland before coming to New Mexico.
Fran Braff
Instructor
Fran was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to Dallas, Texas during her childhood. Fran graduated from North Texas State University. She spent all 36 years of her teaching career at Reinhardt Elementary in Dallas. In addition to teaching grades 3-7 she was a staff developer and taught remedial reading. She was Teacher of the Year three times! After retirement Fran moved to Farmington to be close to her sister.
Ann Hume Freimuth
Instructor
Ann was born in Brooklyn, NY. She moved to Farmington when she was in the fourth grade. She has a BA in History from Daemen College, Buffalo, NY. After 28 years teaching both mid-school and high school, she retired from Central Consolidated Schools. Ann has been nominated three times for Who’s Who in American Teachers!
Donna Coennen
Instructor
Donna was born in Tampa, FL and raised in Midwest City, Oklahoma, but for over 33 years, she has called Farmington home. She is married with 2 grown children. Her teaching degree comes from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma with a B.S. degree in Home Economics, Education, and Language Arts, certified in Early Childhood and Secondary Education. She taught in San Juan County for the last 18 years including Rocinante High, Aztec High, PVHS, and many elementary schools. Some of her hobbies include camping, fishing, hunting, reading, music appreciation, and working with young people.
Peg Johnson
Instructor
Peg grew up in the "snow belt" of upstate New York but has lived all over the East coast including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, NYC, Connecticut, and Florida. In 2004 she and her husband moved to Farmington, and they love the weather here. She graduated from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA in 1964 with a degree in Math then taught middle school math in Fairless Hills, PA. When her husband was transferred to Pittsburgh, she worked for US Steel in their Industrial Engineering Department. After raising two sons in CT and FL she returned to work as a retail manager but always preferred to teach, so in 1992 she began teaching again. Her 1st position was in Palm Beach County in middle school and then in Citrus County in the high school. She has been retired from teaching for over 10 years.
Janet Clafton
Instructor
Janet originates from Minnesota. She received a BA in Mathematics from South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. She earned her Master's degree in Elementary Education from the University of New Mexico. Janet has accumulated 25 years of teaching experience, including 2 years at Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, AZ, 9 years at Tse Bit Ai' Middle School in Shiprock, 4 years at Kirtland Central High School, 1 1/2 years with UNM, and is currently teaching at PVHS where she has been for the past 10 years. She has taught everything from 6th grade remedial math through Calculus.
Janet joined Sylvan in November 2009 and has enjoyed working with the variety of ability levels the students possess.
Janet and her husband, John, have 4 children. They have made Farmington their home for over 23 years.
Jessica Joslin
Instructor
Jessica received an Elementary Education degree from the University of New Mexico. She is working on her Master's degree in Elementary Education with an emphasis in Reading from Eastern NM University. She is also working on her Special Education and Early Childhood licensure. She teaches Developmentally Delayed Preschool children at Kirtland Early Childhood Center. She has a 10-year-old daughter who is in the 5th grade. Her hobbies are bowling, watching movies, camping, fishing, and hanging out with friends and family.
Davina Terry
Instructor
Davina and her family relocated to the Farmington area in August 2010 from a small mining town in Arizona. She graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2007 with a degree in Elementary Education. She really enjoys the history, culture, climate, and the people in the Farmington area. She loves working in education and believes it is the greatest gift you can give a child.
Geri Montoya
Instructor
Geri is a Special Education Math teacher in Aztec. 2010-11 was her first year of teaching. She was an Educational Assistant for 8 years in Farmington while attending San Juan College and New Mexico Highlands University. She will be going back soon to get her MA. She has 2 teenage daughters. The youngest is a cheerleader and plays softball. The oldest is in the Cosmetology program at SJC.
Geri moved to Farmington over 11 years ago from Pagosa Springs, CO. She loves the snow activities but recently enjoying the summer heat and spending time at the lake swimming, tubing, wakeboarding, and boating. She coached youth soccer and softball teams as the girls grew up, and she plays softball.
Mr. Tory Bonner
Instructor
My name is Tory Bonner and I am from Nucla, a tiny town on Colorado’s western slope, where we were a two hour drive from the nearest stop light or McDonalds. I was an adventurous lad with many interests, which I brought with me out into the larger world. My interests include: hiking, camping, reading, astronomy, rock hunting (fearsome beasts, be afraid) and games of every kind. I love to travel and see new places and in my travels I have been from ocean to ocean, from the Canadian border to the Mexican and visited most of the continental states (except the southeastern ones, being a mountain boy the humid heat does not agree with me). As I have accumulated experience (i.e. gotten older), I realized my wanderlust was a result of my love of learning. In my travels and intermittent education, I majored in Civil Engineering, Biology, Chemistry and ultimately in Mathematics. There are too many great things to learn to just choose one! I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 2003. I returned to my home town to teach at the combined junior and senior high school where I taught seventh grade math through Trigonometry as well as Driver’s Education and Earth Science. While there I also coached wrestling and football which kept me in good shape because we didn’t have enough students to get through practice without three or four coaches as stand-ins. I came to New Mexico to work for a Geotechnical Engineering company in Farmington where I met a wonderful girl, Heather, from Kirtland. Heather is a Geologist and fellow explorer whom I love very much. We now have two beautiful blue eyed daughters, Alana and Aspen, and look forward to showing them the great places we have found and then finding some more.
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