Mrs. Harpole has been a Health Sciences teacher at Atherton High School since the 2020 school year.
Harpole, a Louisville native, went to St. Francis High School, then went to Spalding University to get a degree in nursing. She worked as a nurse from 1997 to 2021.
Harpole worked in 9 different emergency rooms prior to teaching and was one of the first people in the United States to get Covid 19 during the beginning of the pandemic.
Prior to working at Atherton, Harpole worked at Bellarmine University teaching in their accelerated nursing program. She came to Atherton because one of her friends from nursing, Mrs Goodwin, a former nurse and now fellow Health Sciences teacher at Atherton, reached out and told her to come to Atherton.
“Mrs. Goodwin reached out to me and said, hey, the hospital tried to kill you. You should come work with me,” said Harpole.
Moving forward in the Health Sciences pathway, Harpol wants to implement EKG (electrocardiogram) Certifications and possibly an International Baccalaureate (IB) Sports Medicine class in the future to help expand the pathway. The pathway itself has come a long way thanks to her and many others.
Harpole enjoys playing pickleball and doing yoga in her free time. Now that all of her kids are off at college, she and her husband have a lot more free time and have fun spending time together.
Harpole believes that whether it be healthcare or teaching, the best thing is helping and doing good for others.
“I think most people take on health care or teaching because they enjoy that feeling of doing for others. You know, when you do for others, it makes you feel good, too. So it’s like a win win,” Harpole said.
