Tara Samuels
Tara brings a unique background to teaching science, having previously worked in botany and natural resource management with the National Park Service. This experience fostered a deep appreciation for the natural world that she shares with her students. Driven by a desire for deeper community engagement, Tara pursued a lifelong passion for education. In her […]
Taya Chase
Hi! My name is Taya, but my students call me “Ms. Chase”. I grew up among the redwood trees in Humboldt County, northern California. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Art from San Diego State University in 2011. After working in the San Diego Superior Courts for several […]
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
Hi everyone!! My name is Nicholle Wyatt. I grew up on an 80-acre farm located outside Portland, Oregon. A first generation college student, I attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon where I was a nationally ranked handball player (it’s like racquetball, but you use your hands) and graduated with a Mass Communications degree. After […]
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
Michael Chin graduated from UCSD with a major in Chemistry and a minor in Secondary Science Education. He was introduced to High Tec through student teaching 10th grade Chemistry at High Tech High International and North County. He worked as a 12th grade Academic Coach before pursuing his Masters of Education High Tech High’s Graduate […]
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
