Math teacher Takeshi Kaneko and his wife welcomed their baby girl Maki into the world in April of last year. By this May, Kaneko will have taken six two-week blocks of paternity leave.
As a new parent, Kaneko hasn’t completely adjusted to having a baby. “It’s weird getting used...
Teachers can be under a lot of stress sometimes, especially when they’re juggling lesson plans, recommendation letters and their own lives outside of school. For math teacher Daniel Hahn, however, one bundle of joy makes it all worth it: his one-year-old baby named Leo.
When Hahn found out...
Written by Grace Ding
Although she’s been teaching math for 25 years now, Diane Gleason took many turns in her life before settling on education. Upon graduating from Cubberley High School in 1976, Gleason attended Foothill College and took electronics courses. However, after a few jobs assembling...
Written by Liza Kolbasov
When math teacher Carlos Martinez was in high school, he found his second home in the water. Martinez first started swimming as a freshman at Valley High School in southern California, and stayed on a swim team through his freshman year at University of California...
