Ken Brown, Social Studies teacher at Millennium High School
What was your path to becoming a teacher? I became a teacher at 35 years of age. Prior to this, I was a project manager for a construction company building […]
Gillian Bailey, Arts Department Chair of Piedmont High School
PEF: What was your path to becoming an arts educator? Bailey: I come from a family of educators – two of my grandparents were educators, and my mother was […]
Kelly Wallis, 3rd grade teacher at Havens Elementary
PEF: What was your path to becoming a teacher? Wallis: I come from a family of teachers – grandmother, mom, aunts, uncles and cousins. It was a natural path for […]
Annie Holland, U.S. History teacher at Piedmont Middle School
PEF: What was your path to becoming a teacher? Holland: I always wanted to be a teacher; in fact, I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t want […]
Rachna Dube, teacher at Havens Elementary
PEF: What was your path to teaching? Dube: Discovering wonderful children’s authors when my daughter was a young girl had a big role to play in my decision to become […]
Joanie Sears, teacher at Wildwood Elementary
PEF: What brings you the most joy about being an educator? Sears: I love working with children. I feel incredibly lucky to do this work and guide these children as […]
Adam Saville, Piedmont Middle School Technology Coordinator
PEF: What led you to become a teacher? Saville: I’ve been a teacher for the better part of 20 years. I’ve always been drawn to the power and potential of […]
Beth Black, teacher at Piedmont High School
PEF: Tell us about your journey to becoming a teacher? Black: Teaching has always felt very natural for me. I majored in both journalism and education in college and started working […]
Robin Ludmer, teacher-librarian at Wildwood Elementary
School libraries are essential to student’s academic development – study after study has shown that students in schools with well-funded libraries staffed by professional, certified librarians [...]
