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Balboa High School
Class Information:
Position:
Teacher
Personal Information:
About Me:
I was a newspaper journalist for about seven years before I became a high school teacher. I still love writing and use my journalism experience and stories to teach the students about literature, my other love. On a personal note, I adore old Jazz music from the 30s on. I can't seem to get enough of Billie Holiday, Ella, Duke and Louis.
College and Degrees:
B.A. in English/Journalismfrom Rutgers University, New Brunswick,NJ M.S.in Journalism (news reporting and writing) from Medill Journalism School, Northwestern University, Evanston,IL M.S.in Secondary Education, Pace University, New York City,NY
Activities:
Hiking, biking, tennis, writing, reading, cooking
Favorite Books:
Unbearable Lightness of Being; EVERYTHING by F. Scott Fitzgerald; How to Be Good by Nick Hornby; Emma by Jane Austen; EVERYTHING by William Shakespeare; Lolita by Nabokov; Pictures of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Madame Bovary by Flaubert.
Favorite Quotes:
"Live peacefully and write savagely" Gustave Flaubert "But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit." Shakespeare Betweenmen and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." Oscar Wilde
Interests:
I have an intense interest in writing fiction and continue to hone creative writing skills through poetry, short fiction and novel writing
Employment History:
Chester Observer Tribune, staff writer Morris County Daily Record, staff writer CPNet.com,staff writer Adjunct Professor of Journalism, County College of Morris, NJ English Teacher, Louis D. Brandeis High School, New York City, NY English Teacher, Milpitas High School, Milpitas, Ca English Teacher, Balboa High School, San Francisco,Ca
Percent of Students are:
     At-risk: 25 %
     Average: 65 %
     High-achiever: 10 %
Percent of Students are:
     White/Caucasian : 25 %
     Hispanic: 20 %
     African American: 10 %
     Asian: 45 %
Average number of students in class:: 30 students
Number of students I teach:: 160 students