Biology

 

Health Sciences High and Middle College

Socrates Project: Integration! A game of integrins

 

Kimberly Elliot is a science teacher at Health Sciences High and Middle College, a local charter school that partners with Sharp Healthcare to expose students to careers in the science and health fields. After earning her Bachelor’s degree in General Biology from UCSD, Kimberly worked as a research scientist, studying transcription and splicing in yeast. With a passion for science education and children, she decided to switch careers and become a teacher.

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Biology/Marine Science

 

Garfield High School

Socrates Project: Bacterial evolution

Camille Fowler is a Biology and Marine Science educator at Garfield Continuation High School, located downtown on the San Diego City College campus. She has over 11 years of teaching experience and maintains high expectations for all her students. To motivate and engage her students, Camille incorporates project-based learning strategies, current research, technology, stewardship, and field experiences into her curriculum. She strives to instill ethics, educational values, and connections between the classroom and everyday life by focusing human health and the environment.

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Biology/Marine Science

 

High Tech High - North County

Socrates Project: Neuroscience methods exploration

 

Matthew Leader is a native of San Diego and received a Bachelor of Science at the University of California at San Diego in General Biology and Teaching Credentials at San Diego State University. He is an Americorps alumni and has recently completed a Masters in Education in Teacher Leadership at the HTH Graduate School of Education.  

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Biology

 

Serra High School

Socrates Project: Modern applications of electrical design

 

Denise Litt has been teaching high school science including biology, physics and earth science at local San Diego high schools for the past 6 years, 4 of them at Serra High School. She earned her bachelors degree in Environmental Science from University of California at Santa Barbara and worked in the environmental consulting industry as a staff geologist for 6 years prior to becoming a teacher. She prides herself on having a fun classroom with high expectations.

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Physics and Biology

 

Helix High School

Socrates Project: Reading and Interpreting Brain Waves

Tom McElfresh is an avid SCUBA diver and camping enthusiast.

 

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Chemistry

Helix High School

Socrates Project: Save our Chemist!

Colleen Robinson is returning for a third year as a Socrates Teacher.

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Biology/Chemistry

 

Patrick Henry High School

Socrates Project: Genomics, bioinformatics, and health

 

Autumn Ross is a biology and chemistry teacher. She has served as a co-coach for Science Olympiad.
She has also taught summer school, and credit recovery classes. She is interested in bringing current research and lab techniques into the high school classroom. 

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Biology/Advanced Biology

 

Mira Mesa High School

Socrates Project: Teenage Mutant Ninja Flies!

 

Lynda Spendlove is a biology teacher at Mira Mesa High School. Prior to teaching Lynda worked as a quality control laboratory assistant for a local biotechnology company that tests and manufactures clinical and home-use drug and pregnancy tests. As a student at Humboldt State University Lynda became the first female player for the university's intercollegiate Tournament Paintball Team and still enjoys spending time playing paintball, and spending time outdoors either hiking, working on cars, and running.

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