How did an engineering student become an English teacher? Surprisingly, Dr. West was actually always a lover of math and science. West went to college to become an engineer but found himself enjoying his...

One Winter, about 30 years ago, a young couple went to Iowa for an international job fair to be assigned to teach. They were offered a position to teach in either Costa Rica or The Philippines. “You...

“I have been like a Robin Hood all my life,” said Roberto Mercedes, Spanish teacher, when I asked him what he was like in high school. He had always cared about activism and almost became a lawyer...

“I learned to read music before I learned to read words,” Ms. Carnevale, Chair of the Department of Performing Arts, told me when I sat down with her last week. Not surprisingly, music has been, “a...

When he’s not on stage playing guitar, you’ve probably seen Mr. Turow–or Brad, as many of his students call him–roaming the halls with his nose in a huge red math book. When I asked him about his...