Teaching Experience
I started the business program at Shenandoah Middle School in 1974. When the computers came into the scene, there were no computers in my school but I was intrigued by this new invention and wanted to know more about it. That was the right decision. I then transferred to Miami Senior High in 1980 and have taught different courses in the Business Technology Department ever since.
Hobbies and Interests
I enjoy traveling, painting, action movies and experiencing new adventures with my family.
Experience with ECS
This coming school year, 2015-2016, will be the first year we teach ECS and I am looking forward to replacing the current Intro to Information Technology class with ECS.
Hello! My name is Kristen Listerman and Iām from Cincinnati, OH. I will be starting my 16th year of teaching. I currently work for Oak Hills High School. I teach Personal Finance I & II, Microsoft Office Applications, and am the International Studies Pathway Capstone (Independent Study Course) Coordinator. I serve as a member of our schoolās ISSN Asia Society, working to globalize learning in the classroom to create a more globally-competent student. This will be my first year teaching ECS and Iām looking forward (and am grateful for) the extensive PD training.
In my free time, I am a soccer mom running my 3 kids to and from practices and games. I love reading but only manage to do it in the summers (about a book a week) and enjoy crafting with my kids.
Hi Jillian:
Your job description seems very interesting.
Congratulations,
Maggie Gutierrez
Hi my name is Mike. I am a first year teacher at a charter located in San Pedro, CA. I just received my Single Subject Teaching Credential in Mathematics from California State University of Long Beach last Fall and was lucky enough to find a great place to work during the following Spring semester of 2015. At this school I teach Integrated Math 1 and Integrated Math 2 to a class of 9th graders. Next year I will be teaching the same students in the 10th grade. These classes will include Integrated Math 2, Integrated Math 3, and PreCalculus along with Exploring Computer Science.
My hobbies mostly involve music. I am a guitar player and love a wide range of styles. Some of my favorites to listen to and play are jazz, funk, classic rock, and R&B.
I forgot my hobbies, learning things on Pintrest and trying them. Love dreaming up projects for our yard and house and completing them. Shopping with my mother, fishing with anyone who will go. Addicted to planting and landscaping. Organizing things with my daughter and new addiction of crossfit!
I went to school and got my BA in Business Management not teaching. Came back home and found no jobs! Went to work in the ER as admissions, enjoyed the excitement but soon realized it wasnāt fun working all kinds of hours, holidays and weekends. Strange I didnāt get that when I applied, that hey hospitals donāt close for anything. Lol
Sought out another career change, at a school to become the detention/admin assistantā¦ And that is where I found my love for education. Decided to go back to school got my Masters to teach business and health education. Last two weeks of finishing my Maters Thesis paper, and got a call if I could teach math? Didnāt know I had enough background credits, but I did. Here I am 15 years later still teaching math.
Our district has NO Computer Science courses, and I went to an IETA conference And was inspired to change that and I am ready for change 
and to give my kids a chance at a great career.
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Yeah I found someone from my state!
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Hello Amanda.
Enjoy the girls over the summer. I too, am a teacher at an at risk center in Broward County. I teach High School Math to pregnant teens from the northern section of Broward. I also teach Keyboarding, Accounting and desktop publishing.
My studentsā interest was peaked during the Hour of code and I am looking forward to an interesting year teaching ECS.
Paulina Allen
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My name is Paulina Allen. I have been teaching High School Mathematics for the past 17 years and Business Education for the past 10 years. Some of the classes include Keyboarding and Business Skills, Desktop publishing, Introduction to Informational Technology and Accounting. I have used APEX and Plato Web as a platform for course delivery.
I enjoy travelling to New York to visit family and all other free time is spent as a Director of Religious Education at my church.
I participated in the Hour of Code for the past 2 years and I look forward to the challenge of teaching ECS.
I teach at risk pregnant teens in the northern section of Broward County in Florida.
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Hello everyone my name is Lloyd Mann and I just completed my 4th year teaching Chemistry and Physical Sciences at Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. I am really excited to accept the challenge of building a computer science program at my school and I will be teaching six sections of ECS next year. Before teaching I was a computer programmer and tech support specialist for 15 years at various companies here in Las Vegas. Besides being an avid science nerd I am also a die-hard tech geek and love to delve into computer technologies. Lately I have been exploring home automation with my Amazon Echo and Phillips Hue lights. I also own a plethora of computers and have been diving into learning about Raspberry Piās and robotics with Sphero and other mini-robots. In my spare time (what little I have) I am a bookworm reading mainly sci-fi and fantasy plus action adventure novels. I am also a history buff as my undergraduate degree was in US History.
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Hi! My name is Fran and I have been an educator for over 20 years. My career started in NY and brought me to the Clark County School District in 2001. In that time I have taught just about everything from Pre-K to college level students including ASL and swimming. I am currently a computer science teacher and look forward to exposing more and more students to the world of computer science.
I have been involved in auto racing my entire life and love to watch drivers that I have grown up with race on various NASCAR circuits. I also enjoy swimming and anything related to aquatics.
I look forward to becoming more familiar with ECS.
Hi, I am Roberta Butka. I started teaching CS, programming including AP and business courses the last 8 weeks or school in 1994, in Miami-Dade County, FL, after being one of first two computer techs for the entire county when we started the magnet programs for computer science in the middle and high schools. I continued the next four years and then moved to a local private university and developed the online program in CIS. In the years since, I have worn quite a few hats including: web developer, SQL DBA and trainer. After a 16 absence from the classroom, the 2014-15 has brought me back into teaching in a Virtual Learning Lab through Broward Countyās Broward Virtual School!
I enjoy gardening (general, butterfly and orchids), reading, crafts but my true passion is photography.
I am looking forward to refreshing CS principles and/or teaching this older girl some new tricks; so you can tell I love dogs too.
Good Day Allā¦ Iāve been Matthew Huffine for over 56 years now and have been a science and math teacher for 28 of them, a student for 22 years and a life long learner. I presently teach human anatomy and physiology, environmental science and health in Apple Valley California at a K-12 Charter school and plan on adding ECS to the lineup for the 2015-16 school year.
I enjoy anything science, hiking, gardening, live music (from Jon Foreman to Neil Young), reading, curriculum writing, Bible study, and natural resource conservation work.
Presently my wife and I are learning how to live as grandparents with a newly āemptied nestā as our youngest will be off to college this fall to University of Redlands.
Hello all you ECS fans. Iām from Las Vegas and have taught business classes for the Clark County School District for eleven years. I am also the DECA advisor at Centennial HS.
HI Everyone,
My name is Jane Kim and I am going onto my 9th year of teaching. This will be my first time teaching a computer science class and I am very excited. I love to travel and hang out with my family and friends doing anything fun.
Hi, there! My name is Michele Barrett and this will be my 3rd year back in the classroom after 14 years at home raising my 2 beautiful daughters. I used to teach CS back in the day and am excited to get into it again. Excited, and a bit intimidated. Last time I taught CS, my big contribution was getting rid of the old 286 machines and introducing a Windows lab. Seems things have changed a bit!
My sole hobby has been driving my daughters to their various events. As the oldest gets her license this summer, Iām looking for new hobbies for this new season of life. Very exciting!
Iām at Strongsville High School in Strongsville, Ohio, a suburb southwest of Cleveland.
Hello everyone! My name is Stephanie Berry and I am going to be starting my third year of teaching at Basic High School. I am venturing the transition between teaching English to the exciting world of Exploring Computer Science.
My hobby (more like my obsession) is Tae Kwon Do. I am currently am a blue belt and I am working towards my dream of becoming a black belt!
I am new to the Exploring Computer Science curriculum and I am excited/anxious to get started!
I am Dwin and super excited about joining the Coding family. I have taught for over 14 years in business and computers.
I have taught classes in computer repair using Cisco curriculum, I obtain Cisco certification in Routing Protocols and Concepts, Network Fundamentals and PC Hardware and Software. I have taught for the past two year in the National Academy Foundation (NAF) IT Essential/IC3.
I enjoy boating, fishing, and tennis.
My name is Prentice Armstead. I have been teaching for over nine years at an community college level in Computer Science. My current position held today is a Computer Science teacher in Houston, Texas.
I am a graduate of two great universityās. I earned my undergraduate degree from Texas Southern Univerisy and earned my Masters degree from the University of Phoenix. My hobbies are exercises and volunteering for the community.
This year is my first year teaching at the high school level and I am looking forward to the journey.