“The thing I love most about it is that it has something new every single day.”
Class: Physical Education and Freshman Health
What students can expect from your class:
- “[Students] can expect to have a lot of fun. We’ll have a good time being around each other.”
CAPTION: “If you ain’t first, you’re last.”
FUN FACTS:
- “One of my favorite things to do is spend time with family. I live on a lake, so I love kayaking, fishing, and doing anything with my kids.”
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“What I love most about teaching these classes is the type of students that I get to teach. Most are motivated and interested in science enough to want to learn the phenomena of the living and physical world.”
Class: AP Biology and AP Environmental Science
What students can expect from your class:
- “Students can expect a college-paced course with college-level content and lectures on the supremacy of 90’s hip-hop.”
- “Labs and activities for AP Biology are usually centered around the question of what makes organisms living entities, while in AP Environmental Science, the activities concentrate on our external environment and its components, such as soil testing, water analysis, and the like. Most sciences have a central fundamental unit that the course revolves around; in chemistry, it is the atom, in biology the cell, and in environmental science, it is the planet. The range of scales in the subjects I teach start with the microscopic and end with the universal– it’s overwhelmingly vast and simultaneously structured.”
CAPTION: “Me and my daughter, Matilda, on her first day in Teens-N-Tots at NVOT.”
FUN FACTS:
- “[In high school] I was the student that I have the most trouble with now: the academically curious and always interactive class clown.”
“What I love most about [AP Capstone] is that it teaches students how to look critically at the world around them and how to really think about the information that they are absorbing from popular media, social media, research, pretty much the whole gamut. So I think that my students typically describe me as firm but fair.”
Class: AP Seminar, AP Research (AP Capstone)
What students can expect from your class:
- “I think the biggest expectation I have for my students is communication. Because I understand that life happens, I ask my students to be very communicative. If there is something going on, and you couldn’t get that assignment done, talk to me about it, right? Because I can’t help you, and I can’t meet you halfway if we don’t have that conversation.”
CAPTION: “When I’m not teaching, I enjoy traveling (especially to Disney World) and spending time with my husband and two daughters.”
FUN FACTS:
- “I am a graduate of NVOT, and I am married to my high school sweetheart. We met here and started dating at the end of my sophomore year.”
“I was on The Lance. So I think that my Lance family was really what grounded me in high school. I was your run of the mill honors kid. I played some sports, but that was never my priority. I knew I was going to college for journalism, so I was all in the journalism program; I have always had a passion for TV production. So if I had to pick a different career, I don’t think it would work now, with a family, but in my younger years, I wanted to go into TV production.
