Carly Anderson, Conceptual Editor-in-Chief
• January 10, 2018
After taking her ACT in June of 2017, senior Salomi Inje received a perfect score—a 36 out of 36. Inje was also a National Merit Semifinalist. These accomplishments should have qualified her for automatic...
What got you interested in teaching?
“I can’t say there was anything in particular. I played teacher/school as a kid. I think it was just always a passion and dream of mine.”
What class(es)...
Brynn Haun was destined to be a fighter. She was first diagnosed with cancer in seventh grade and overcame it in 2015. Two years later in the summer of 2017, her cancer resurfaced in a more aggressive...
Pathfinder: What is your job?
Hopkins: “I am a part-time French teacher. I do French I and French II, so I am here in the morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.”
What got you interested in teaching French?
“I...
Pathfinder: What got you interested in teaching?
Donaldson: "I had a few stand-out teachers in high school and college. What struck me is how they were able to take complex concepts, break them down...
In an effort to improve his health and find an activity that fit his interests, senior Joe Roseman participates in parkour.
“Parkour is combining a bunch of different martial arts and motion tricks...
Alumnus Mark Reardon started in radio at the age of 15 and studied journalism on his own after graduating in 1983.
“My first jobs in radio were music radio gigs. I was a disc jockey at a rock station,...
What is your job? What do you do for your job?
“I’m a teacher's assistant, and I have a few different responsibilities. First, I have lunch duty, in which I make sure students are not roaming the...
What is your job? What do you do?
“I am a special education teacher. I help students learn by evaluating their current ability, creating and implementing appropriate interventions and providing accommodations...
Searching for a new life and new culture, 18-year-old Davide Grimoldi crossed an ocean to experience life as an American teen.
Grimoldi has lived in Milan, Italy his entire life, and arrived in the...
![Horn poses with her husband, her son Braydon and her daughter Mylah at Quail Ridge Park in Wentzville, MO. “I am married [to] a teacher and coach, and [we] have two kids," Horn said. "So when I say teaching is my passion, I am not lying...I have surrounded myself with education.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/horn-900x600.jpg)
![Technology and Engineering teacher Chris Donaldson helps senior Jack Fox during the Day of Code on December 6. Donaldson teaches three courses, all involving technology and engineering. “I am most excited to see students try new things, build skills and develop strengths they may not have previously realized they had," Donaldson said. "[I want] to build positive relationships with students and staff and to positively impact students’ attitudes toward STEM concepts, classes and career choices.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/donaldson-900x600.jpg)
![Teacher assistant Matt Tesson makes an announcement over the intercom. "My greatest challenge, so far, has been getting over my nerves of making the afternoon bus announcement to the whole school! [The] first few times were nerve wracking," Tesson said. “The best way to overcome any challenge is facing it head on. I’m not nervous [making announcements] anymore."](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tesson-900x600.jpg)
