Ayaprun Staff
    What do you do and what do you do for the school? I am the K-6 ELD (English Language Development) teacher. I'm also the 3rd-6th grade English Battle of the Books coach.

    English Name-Shari Neth

    Yup'ik Name-Uyaquq

    Hometown-Bethel for nearly 23 years

    Other Interesting Details-On July 4th before my 4th grade year, I was chased by a black angus cow into a barbed wire fence.

    How many years working for LKSD-I'm on my 9th year.

    What else have you done? I was a neurosurgical, ICU, and pulic health nurse before I became a teacher.

    Family Details-married to Will Updegrove for over 26 years; mother of four (our oldest two were adopted as teenagers), grandmother of five, greatgrandmother of one

    Favorite Native Food-akutaq, salmon strips, and herring eggs on seeweed

    Favorite Activity-reading, gardening, a doing Sudoku puzzles

    Favorite Color-teal

    What did you do las summer?-visited two of my sisters and their families in the Seattle area, my daughter and her family in Everett, my brother and his family in Montana, and my parents in southcentral Washington state

    What do you like best about work at Ayaprun Elitnaurvik?-The staff and the students!