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  • Edison High School
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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Picture a physicist. What does this person look like? Typical answers are like Einstein or Sheldon from Big Bang. Over 95% of students asked this will draw a white male. Now picture the typical mix of students in an inner city US High School. For nearly everybody these two pictures don't match. Physics and engineering is not as diverse as it needs to be. My goal as a former college professor transitioning to high school teacher is to give more women, minorities, and other under-served populations a positive exposure to physics in high school so we can start making the physics community more diverse and inclusive. This is my first year as the physics teacher at Edison High School in Minneapolis. Edison is a Title 1 school. Nearly half the students enrolled in my physics classes are english language learners. 85% of our students are non-white. I am teaching 4 upper level physics classes and 1 section of IB physics.

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Picture a physicist. What does this person look like? Typical answers are like Einstein or Sheldon from Big Bang. Over 95% of students asked this will draw a white male. Now picture the typical mix of students in an inner city US High School. For nearly everybody these two pictures don't match. Physics and engineering is not as diverse as it needs to be. My goal as a former college professor transitioning to high school teacher is to give more women, minorities, and other under-served populations a positive exposure to physics in high school so we can start making the physics community more diverse and inclusive. This is my first year as the physics teacher at Edison High School in Minneapolis. Edison is a Title 1 school. Nearly half the students enrolled in my physics classes are english language learners. 85% of our students are non-white. I am teaching 4 upper level physics classes and 1 section of IB physics.

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