What makes your style unique?
“I wear a lot of button-down shirts and jeans normally. My students will often say I wear ‘graph paper shirts’ because I'm a math teacher and I have a lot of checked...
This summer, the West community rallied to raise money for Every Child’s Hope (ECH), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the well-beings of young people, through a gofundme page.
To supplement...
Sabrina Bohn, Managing Editor-in-Chief
• March 5, 2018
While most students dread the thought of writing a research paper, sophomore Anjali Shah got a head start on her future last fall by writing a textbook passage about ophthalmology and an informational...
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)...
Pathfinder: What got you interested in teaching?
Meers: “When I first decided to become a teacher, it was because I simply wanted to do something that involved math, and teaching seemed like the best...
Hadji, Nayak, and Zhao created the tutoring program at the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, and Hadji noticed attendance has increased as finals draw nearer.
In grade-level math teams, 27 students participated in the Excellence in Mathematics Contest, at Forest Park Community College, on Nov. 7. Despite not sending the maximum of 10 students per grade, the...
Emily Dickson, CONCEPTUAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• October 23, 2015
Ruth Knop, who teaches Algebra II and Honors Precalculus at West, met President Obama when she was honored with a Presidential Award for Mathematics Teaching this summer.
![Typing on her laptop, Shah looks over the work she has done. Her research surrounds ophthalmology, and she has worked with graduate students studying the effect of the eclipse on retinas. “I got involved because my dad got me in contact with a few people, but then I reached out to more people at [Washington University] to see if I could help them work,” Shah said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DSC_0020-2-900x648.jpg)
![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)
