One of 5 chosen Teacher of the Year in California, Kelly Kovacic (AM '02) teaches Social Studies in 11th and 12th grades at The Preuss School, an intensive college preparatory school for low-income student populations located on the UCSD campus. She also was selected as California’s nominee for the prestigious National Teacher of the Year competition.
Jeff Camarillo (AM '05) teaches American history to middle schoolers at the Vanguard Learning Center in the Compton Unified School District. His father, Al Camarillo, Stanford professor, grew up there, and 35 years into his academic career, he's revisiting it as a historian.
Robert Pronovost's (AM '07) 2nd grade class in Ravenswood was profiled on KRON4's tech news where they showed how their classroom uses a special smart board. (Note: navigate to story titled "Some Classrooms Utilize High Tech Chalkboards.")
Cristina Galvan So (AM '02) is in the arctic paired with a research team looking at how polar bears are coping with sea ice loss due to global climate change.
Kristy Schleibaum (AM '08) talks about her first year of teaching.
Channa Cook (AM '03) is the principal of Sojourner Truth Academy, a charter school in New Orleans.
Taica Hsu's (AM '06) students do projects in which they apply mathematical principles to illustrate social inequities.
Knowles Teaching Fellow Geetha Lakshminarayanan (AM '08) recognized in Bay Area paper.
Travis Bristol (AM '04) recognized in NYC Department of Education recruitment video - Day in the Life.
The Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Library features a lesson plan created by Downtown College Prep teacher Kristy Cabrera (AM '04).
Risha Krishna (AM '01) draws Fremont students to ethnic studies classes in unorthodox ways.
Justin Green (AM '05) quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about EPAHS.
Michelle Wagner (AM '00) named "Teacher of the Week" by San Jose Mercury News
Read about STEP alum & Fremont Union High School District's teacher of the year for 2003: Khir Johari!
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