Growing up in a Seventh-day Adventist Church, I always had the opportunity of attending our church schools. And after finishing both Bachelor’s and Masters in the field of Education, it has always been my passion to teach in schools where I believe it is a way of serving Christ to prepare souls for His Kingdom. As an experienced SDA educator with more than 22 years of teaching experience, I have a well-grounded, Bible-based teaching philosophy, which is to nurture our young future leaders to grow with integrity in all aspects of life in their physical, mental, social, and spiritual development. For young learners to grow and become successful in life, I believe that educators must be well equipped to be good role models socially, mentally, and spiritually so that their students will have a personal relationship with Jesus as a friend, will be ready to meet Jesus at any time, and will be a true witness to others. I believe I can play an important role in this preparation by nurturing my students to be what their Creator wants them to be now and for the rest of their lives.

My name is Scott Johnson and I have been teaching at Hoover Christian School since 2019. I am a Commissioned Adventist Teacher, and have taught for 33 years  in the private Adventist Educational System. I chose to join the Adventist Church and was baptized at Camp Mivoden in Hayden Lake, Idaho, in 1975. I received a scholarship to go to Walla Walla College, then another larger 4-year scholarship to attend New Mexico State University. There, I worked as a student counselor and as a marine biologist at the New Mexico State University Biology Station in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. While there, I monitored pollution levels and collected data on marineland animal populations in the Gulf of California, to study the results of dam building on the Colorado River. I graduated from New Mexico State University in 1988 on the President's list of scholars. I have a Professional Certification in Elementary Education, with Junior Academy endorsements in Educational Technology, English, General Science, Math, Physical Education and Academy Religion. Currently I am working during each summer on an endorsement in Special Education.   Working here at Hoover Christian school is simply a great and wonderful blessing. My overarching goal at Hoover Christian School is to broaden my student's belief in Jesus Christ and include the Author of all creation in all that they study, to establish a complete educational foundation that results in their salvation. I have taught students in cities such as Chicago, IL and in Spokane, Washington, and Admiral Barry Black's children on Port Royal Island off the coast of South Carolina. I have taught students in country school settings near Mt. Rainier in Washington State, and the high desert of Farmington, New Mexico. I believe in the sanctity of each child and their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with Jesus their Hope, Redeemer, and Savior.

Seventh-day Adventist Christian Education is my passion.  It is so exciting to be a part of the largest protestant parochial school system in the world--changing lives one student at a time.  With an undergraduate degree in Business Education from Southern Adventist University, I began my teaching career in 1983. In 1995 I completed my MA degree in Corporate and Organizational Communication from Fairleigh Dickinson University. During these past many years I have continued to teach but have added business manager, registrar, vice principal, and principal to my resume.  Teaching isn't a job to me, it is my life.

Classroom Philosophy

• Students are expected to try.
• Students are expected to make NO excuses.
• Students are expected to expect the most from themselves.
• Students are expected "to be thinker,s and not mere reflector's of other men's thoughts..." Education p. 17.

I love this school and I believe in the spiritual and academic education that it provides. My son attended here, and I witnessed the wonderful effects of his attendance here at HCS. 

Art is  a passion of mine! What a privilege it is to teach something that I love. I love to watch a child when they see what they can create!

My goal is to encourage the children in their artistic abilities. I want them to understand where their creativity comes from. When God said He created. This in itself is where the authorization of all human creativity comes from.