Alumni & Careers

Before coming to TEP, Robby taught fourth grade in Roxbury, Massachusetts, worked for four months in an orphanage in Nicaragua, and then taught at a large public high school in Chicago. However, he had never been formally trained to teach. "I knew that I was doing my students a disservice by subjecting them to the only technique that I knew: chalk and talk." After his fourth year of teaching that way, he knew that he needed to learn more about how to teach in an urban school. But he also wanted to deepen his knowledge in history content. The Teacher Education Program at HGSE seemed to be the perfect fit.

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Charissa's original plan at age six was to become an astronaut/artist so that she could paint masterpieces on the moon. Although she never made that trip to the moon, she has certainly traveled the distance. Charissa was born in Tucson, AZ and raised in El Paso, TX on the border of Mexico. With the exception of a few exciting summers in the Big Apple at the School of American Ballet, she spent the majority of her high school years in Texas until the age of 16. After that, sunny California became her home.

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A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Felicia's first "teaching" experience happened in the sixth grade, when a teacher asked her to help a seven year-old with her reading. Before graduating from high school, she had tutored students in several subjects and knew that she would one day be an educator.

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