Academics
With a diverse offering of courses ranging from metal sculpture to AP Physics, from creative writing to AP English, and from laboratory to wood shop, Lincoln Academy provides a comprehensive education to students with a wide range of interests and goals. Find out more about Lincoln Academy’s academic program in our Course Guide or visit our Career and Academic Counseling Department.
Department Contacts
omahoney@lincolnacademy.org
Academic Affiliations:
American and New England Studies.
B.A. English and History, University College, Cork, National University of Ireland
Higher Diploma in Education, University College, Cork, National University of Ireland
M.A. American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine
zimmerli@lincolnacademy.org
Academic Affiliations:
B.S. History, Towson University
M.S. Special Education, McDaniel College
M.S. Educational Administration, McDaniel College
Ed.D. Educational Leadership, University of Maryland, Western Shore
matta@lincolnacademy.org
Liz Matta is a native of Foxborough, Massachusetts. She credits her many great musical experiences in Foxborough, including performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and being challenged to think like a band director from an early age by Steve Massey and Ted Hagarty, as the reasons she has such a passion to work with kids, teach music and continue to perform.
Ms. Matta has been the Lincoln Academy Band Director since 2006. Under her direction, the Lincoln Academy Band Program doubled in student participation and in the number of instrumental performing ensembles offered in just her first four years. Lincoln Academy bands regularly receive gold ratings at state and national competitions, and her student musicians place at regional and state competitions every year. Ms. Matta directs the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, String Ensemble, Jazz Big Band, the Four and Five O’clock jazz combos and teaches Advanced Placement Music Theory.
Ms. Matta is the Program Director of “Maine Music Outreach”; a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower Maine high school musicians to make a difference in the lives of others. With MMO, Liz has trained and lead groups of high school student volunteers to work and play at the Holy Trinity Music School’s Summer Music Camp in Cange and the CEMUCHCA Summer Music Camp in Cap-Haïtien since 2012.
Ms. Matta has worked with bands and jazz bands throughout New England as a clinician and guest conductor. In addition to teaching, Ms. Matta can be heard playing as a freelance saxophonist. She enjoys reading, hiking and enjoying time with her family.
Academic Affiliations:
B.M. Music Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
B.M. Saxophone Performance, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
M.A. Band Conducting, American Band College/Sam Houston State University
manahan@lincolnacademy.org
Mr. Manahan came to Lincoln Academy in 1999 from a background in experiential education particularly aboard sail training vessels on the coast of Maine. He hoped to bring the same excitement for learning nautical science and maritime studies on the sea to the study of reading and writing in the English classroom. When not growing with students in the classroom, his preference is still to be outside in the woods or on the water with his family and a good book.
Academic Affiliations:
B.A. English and Textual studies - Syracuse University
MAT - Ursuline College
M.Ed. Educational Policy and Management - Harvard University
janik@lincolnacademy.org
Mr Janik was born and raised in Czech Republic (formerly) Czechoslovakia. About two years before the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Mr. Janik’s parents escaped the Communist regime along with him and his younger brother. Leaving everything and his older brother behind, Mr. Janik’s family started a new life in Connecticut. After attending and graduating from high school, Mr. Janik earned his degree from the University of Maine at Farmington. His first three years of teaching Health were at MSAD #40 (A.D. Gray and D.R. Gaul Middle Schools) in Waldoboro and Union. Trying to expand his horizons and expertise in teaching the secondary grade levels, he then decided to move on and ended up the following three years teaching Wellness at Lincoln/Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts. After that he and his wife wanted to start and raise a family and decided to move back to Maine. Loving the the Midcoast area, Mr. Janik added two more years teaching back at MSAD#40. Since then, Mr. Janik has been part of Lincoln Academy since 2006. Currently, as the Wellness Department Head, Wellness Instructor and a dorm parent, Mr. Janik continues to support student’s lives by encouraging them to make healthy and responsible choices, so they may lead better lives and become productive members of our community. Mr. Janik, his wife and children live on campus. They spend their free time traveling, enjoying the outdoors, fishing and playing games. Mr. Janik’s desire is to travel the beautiful USA and of course, take his family to visit Europe, so they get to learn and experience the different cultures and history of Czech Republic and other countries.
Academic Affiliations:
B.S. Community Health Education, Concentration in School Health Education - University Of Maine at Farmington
levesque@lincolnacademy.org
Academic Affiliations:
BA in Mathematics - University of Maine at Farmington
MS in Mathematics - Boston College
MS Education - University of Southern Maine
grannis@lincolnacademy.org
Academic Affiliations:
B.S. Biology - Grand Valley State University
M.S. Oceanography - University of Maine
welch@lincolnacademy.org
Alison Welch was born in Connecticut but grew up in Waterloo, Belgium where she attended a French-speaking Belgian school for 5 years. Alison taught at schools in Louisiana, Connecticut and at the Carrabassett Valley Academy at Sugarloaf Mountain prior to arriving at Lincoln Academy in the fall of 1993. She lives in Hope with many four-legged friends. Alison spends a lot of time with her two sons, Jake, currently an engineering major at UMaine at Orono, and Will, a student at Maine Maine Maritime Academy. She enjoys riding and training horses, and competes them in three-phase events. Other interests include traveling, hiking, kayaking, downhill and cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and spending summers on Mooselookmeguntic Lake. She serves as an AP Reader for the Advanced Placement French Language and Culture Exam. In addition, she serves as co-chair of the LA Governance Committee.
Academic Affiliations:
B.S. Government and French, Bowdoin College
myers@lincolnacademy.org
Ms. Myers became interested in science while exploring the rocky coast of Maine as a child. In graduate school, she studied lobsters, and can talk about them all day. As a teacher, she has worked with first-graders in Boston, fifth-graders at an outdoor school in northern California, and college students on a schooner traveling from Gloucester, Massachusetts to the Caribbean. Both sides of her family have deep roots in the Newcastle/Damariscotta area. Her mother graduated from Lincoln Academy in 1962! She loves teaching in the edLab program, where students can ask their own questions and find answers in creative ways.
Academic Affiliations:
A.B. Bowdoin College
M.S. Northeastern University
Ed.M. Harvard University
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