New Teacher - The Amazing Unicyclist

By Mayze T.

Mr. Kucher is the new Upper School Student Services teacher.  He teaches the English Lab classes for all of the grades in the Upper School. He says, “I try and help students find their learning strengths and use their strengths to come up with strategies to work with some of the more challenging areas of their learning.”

 Outside of school, Mr. Kucher enjoys reading and writing. Last year he wrote a play that was produced in Massachusetts. This play is going to be produced in Manhattan in March 2011. As for what he likes to read, Mr. Kucher enjoys reading all fiction. He says, “I have my guilty pleasures, like John Grisham, but I equally like reading more well-reviewed literature. The most recent book I read was Freedom (by Jonathan Frantzen). It’s a tough read, very similar to The Great Gatsby. I go between erudite and easy to read books.” He says that after he finished Freedom, he read a more mainstream book that was the fourth in a series. Any guesses?

Before he came to New Canaan Country School, Mr. Kucher worked at the Southfield Center in Darien, which he helped open. He was their executive functions/ADHD coach. In high school, he did several television commercials.  Many years later he was the spokesperson for a plumbing company. He estimates that he did about twenty-five commercials for them in the last six to seven years. As for a strange talent - “I can ride a unicycle,” he says.