Sarah Strong
Sarah Strong loves middle schoolers! She taught 6th grade math/science for six years, grades 9-12 math for eight more years at the High School and just recently returned to be the interim director at HTM. She also works for the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, teaching Math Methods and Advanced Math Pedagogy courses […]
Nicholle Wyatt
Nicholle Wyatt has worked in the college counseling field for over 30 years. Prior to coming to HTH in 2019, she worked in the college admissions offices of Pacific University and the University of San Diego and was the Head College Counselor for 19 years at Academy Our Lady of Peace (OLP). Nicholle stays on […]
Pat Holder
Pat Holder is originally from Los Angeles, CA and has resided in San Diego since 2005. When he is not teaching Humanities at HTH he is likely spending time with his family, camping in baja or working on his house.
Michael Chin
Hi! I graduated from UCSD with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Secondary Science Education. I started my HTH journey by supporting 12th-grade students at High Tech High International as an Academic Coach before pursuing my Teaching Credential/M.Ed. through High Tech High’s Residency Program as a student teacher for 10th-grade Chemistry at High […]
Marcus Bell
Marcus has over 20 years of experience working with urban youth at the Middle school and High school levels. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, (his hometown) he worked as a Counselor, where he helped supervise and develop activities for teens and pre-teens at risk. Soon after he went on to become a Youth Counselor Coordinator and then […]
Margaret Egler
I grew up in Long Beach and on my parents’ avocado farm outside of Fallbrook, where my family spent weekends building a home without electricity or running water. I spent four freezing years in Connecticut studying American studies (an interdisciplinary major focusing on American history, political science, and literature) at Yale. Inspired by my college […]
Lisa Griffin
Lisa Griffin jumped at the opportunity to teach at High Tech High in 2015, after 20 years of teaching and leading in Oakland and San Francisco in arts education, outdoor education, classroom teaching, and teacher education. She has traveled through New England facilitating the creative collaboration of teen theater artists, led backpacking trips on and […]
Juli Ruff
Kalle Palmer
John Santos
I’ve been fortunate to call High Tech High my home since 2004. It has been incredible to be part of the meaningful, impactful project based-learning that has gone on at our schools. I’m energized by the continual opportunities to deepen my understanding of how I might be part of designing equitable learning environments, where authentic […]