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About MeHi! I'm Courtney Pascual, and I'm delighted to be your friendly neighborhood Technology Lab Teacher at Tritt. As we dive into the 2024-2025 school year, I can't help but marvel at the fact that this marks my 11th year at Tritt and my 27th year of wrangling young minds into the wonderful world of education.
Before I found my haven at Tritt, I spent a delightful 15 years at The Westminster Schools, where I wore enough hats to make a milliner weep. I juggled roles as a technology instructor, fifth grade reading and language arts teacher, and junior high reading teacher—sometimes all in one day, with only a modest amount of caffeine. In my quest to spread the gospel of technology, I've trained fellow educators through InTech, Georgia’s homegrown technology program developed at Kennesaw State University. My credentials include a B.A. in Elementary Education from Stetson University and an M.Ed. in Reading, Language, and Literacy Education from Georgia State University. Impressive, right? Try telling that to a roomful of fifth graders. In 2020, I took a leap into the future and became a certified Project Lead the Way Launch Teacher. This was less a step and more a cannonball into a pool of problem-based, exploration-focused curriculum that has forever changed my teaching approach. Now, my students and I navigate the engineering design process through what I like to call "learning that feels suspiciously like play." When I'm not elbow-deep in coding or convincing kids that "debugging" isn't a form of pest control, I enjoy indulging my other passions. These include cooking for friends and family (with varying degrees of success), kayaking and canoeing (without capsizing, most of the time), and walking or running by the Chattahoochee River (dodging the occasional goose). My hobbies also extend to gardening (where plants either thrive or stage dramatic deaths), hiking (with a questionable sense of direction), and spending cherished moments with my family—not necessarily in that order, and often involving some combination of all the above. *Disclaimer: This bio, may or may not, have been AI-generated using the voice of humorist David Sedaris. ;-) |