In this episode, Elika interviews Gillian Turner, a teacher at East Stroudsburg High School South.
Now two months into the school year, they discuss how it has been navigating through the day-to-day hybrid model at East Stroudsburg High School South. Gillian talks about the challenges and ways she is being innovative to ensure all students are feeling engaged and challenged even while learning from home. Gillian is passionate about enabling students to be self-sufficient, to use critical thinking, to collaborate in every lesson she designs. Her goal is to do her part in preparing students for adulthood and help them get in touch with who they are. She believes in students having a voice and giving them a platform to promote awareness to topics and issues they feel strongly about. Even during this pandemic, Gillian strives to give students the most rewarding educational experience by challenging students to get outside their comfort zones and get out of their own way.
Gillian is resident of East Stroudsburg, PA and a proud teacher of the Cavaliers at East Stroudsburg High School South. She received her BA in Theater from Penn State University, her M.Ed from East Stroudsburg University, and is currently finalizing the National Board Certification's final component. She has been a teacher in the district since 2008 and has taught various levels of high school English Language Arts and electives. Currently she is teaching 12th grade honors British Literature and 12th grade Advanced Placement Literature and Composition and will be teaching Drama in the Spring semester. Gillian is also the speech and debate team coach, an assistant director of the Spring musical, co-advisor for the class of 2023, and a volunteer advisor for the Philosophy Club. She is passionate about education and hopes that in her time she will see the absolute and cohesive inclusion of multicultural perspectives, experiences, and intelligences. Due to the very essence of her profession, she never forgets that she has the power to make or to break a person, and that it costs less to build a child than to repair an adult.
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