[…]learning.” Professional Experience During high school, Tamashi entered the world of teaching through working as a mathematics tutor. Inspired by her freshman chemistry teacher, George Householder, she pursued education in college. She co-wrote various curriculums, one of which was a formal secondary biology curriculum to be used in middle school classrooms, and the other being a more informal curriculum that discussed exploratory experiences for families in rich ecoregions of Connecticut. Tamashi had the opportunity to intern as a researcher at a local high school, where she studied the relationship and incorporation of social justice within science classrooms. Tamashi will begin […]
[…]challenge. This knowledge led to high school chemistry being relatively easy for me. I started asking questions that went deeper than learning the content. How are these seemingly different topics related? What was the purpose of each lab? Are there exceptions that break the rules, and why? Questions are infectious. In fact, I am still asking these questions, and enjoy engaging my students through the questions they naturally have about the world around them.” Professional Experience During her undergraduate and graduate studies, Zoe explored many aspects of STEM education. She worked as a teaching assistant within the mathematics and nanoengineering […]
[…]in 2018, Ashley worked as a loans administrative coordinator at Pacific Coast Bankers Bank before becoming an English teacher at SMK Tanah Merah in Kedah, Malaysia, on a grant from the Fulbright Program. In addition to teaching English under this program, she led after-school programs, including video-making projects, guitar lessons, dance club, and hiking trips. She was given an additional grant to stay on as a program coordinator in 2020. Following this experience, she worked as an SAT writing instructor for the Elite Educational Institute, a high school advisor with College Possible Philadelphia through Americorps, and a virtual English teacher […]
[…]and truly valued teaching as a tool for equity and change. It seemed like the perfect way to combine my passion for education and social justice.” Amanda’s Story Teaching Discipline Biology Why Biology “I love facilitating students’ sense-making about the world around them through each of these sciences. I love teaching biology with a focus on biodiversity loss and climate change.” Professional Experience During her undergraduate studies, Amanda worked as an executive assistant at the Law Offices of Jana K. Weimann in San Diego, California. She also worked as a private tutor from 2017 to 2020, teaching high school and […]
[…]data, measured the brightness of stars, and developed tests for tidal disruption events. He worked for California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo from 2020–2021 as a STAR Teacher-Research Fellow in the Cosmic Evolution Project, which used Net Logo to investigate the universe’s evolutionary history. He also worked as a research intern for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the summer of 2021, developing and evaluating physics experiments using microelectromechanical sensor sets in phones. He has spent the last four years working as an education research assistant for the Colorado School of Mines, where he evaluates students’ experiences with […]
[…]regarding co-teaching in Math classrooms. In 2023, she won Middleton High School’s first “Teacher of Excellence” award selected by NHS students. Erin has a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics Education from the University of Wisconsin Madison. In her free time, Erin loves traveling with her family. They are currently working on visiting all 50 states before her daughters graduate high school. She also enjoys volleyball, hockey, hiking, and […]
[…]and a Master of Arts in Mathematics from SUNY Albany. In her free time, Janice enjoys running, biking, and baking. She has also recently become a certified master […]
[…]would not have access to it. Leah provided both one-on-one English tutoring and weekly support for critical thinking discussions on current events. While getting her degrees in Chemistry and Sociology, Leah also became a Chemistry teaching assistant at Bowdoin. Following college, Leah worked with SOS Brooklyn to take a harm reduction approach to reducing shootings and killings in Central Brooklyn. While there, Leah worked with young people who were at high-risk of being involved in shootings, and helped to plan shooting responses and community events centered around anti-violence. At SOS Brooklyn, Leah realized that she wanted to continue working with […]
[…]communities in Los Angeles. At BEAM, Holden taught a class about fractions and a class called “Big Questions, Big Answers” which was primarily about estimation, basic probability, and working with very large numbers. In the 2022-2023 school year, Holden taught at IES Valle del Cidacos, a secondary school in La Rioja, Spain, as an English Teaching Assistant on a Fulbright Grant. About half of the students at the school were enrolled in the bilingual program, where they take the majority of their courses in English. Holden was fortunate to be able to teach some of these bilingual classes, such as […]
[…]finished up her first two years of teaching at this same school teaching geometry, quadratics, and Newcomer Math. Newcomer Math is a class for newly immigrated students that covers everything from how to say numbers in English and basic arithmetic to pre-algebra. Lauren will start her third year of teaching at Berkley High School, Berkeley, California in the 2024-2025 school year. Hobbies In her free time, Lauren loves hanging out with her roommates and friends, and watching YouTube videos. Academic Background University of California (Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Science and Mathematics Education […]
