Model Teachers:
High School Social Studies

Meet this model teacher team and learn how college, career and citizen-ready skills come alive in their classrooms!

Lori Buck

Content: High School US, World & African American History
School: An Achievable Dream Middle & High
Years Taught: 16

What do you love most about teaching?
I love teaching the students how to think about the past from multiple perspectives. This skill helps them look at a topic and be better listeners to opinions they may or may not agree with. Hopefully, this skill will teach them to value others' opinions throughout their lives.

What word best describes you as a teacher and why?
Patient. It takes time to develop a mind to become a respectful, critical thinker who cares about the world and everything that lives in it.

Brittany Lahr

Content: High School Social Studies
School: Denbigh High
Years Taught: 10

Why are you passionate about supporting fellow teachers?
People don't "settle" on being a teacher; they seek out the teaching profession because they like working with and helping students. I want teachers to feel successful in the classroom so they stay in the classroom. Helping teachers inevitably helps the students in their classrooms, so it's really a win-win.

What do you love most about teaching?
Getting to work with young people and helping them find their passions. As a product of NNPS, I am glad to give back to the same community that helped me in my youth!

What is the best way to describe your classroom on a typical day?
Lively. I have large classes this year, so there are lots of needs, questions, etc. We spend each day doing notes and an activity to reinforce the learning. Students keep notebooks for their notes and work is sometimes done on paper or on the computer. We utilize canvas a lot in my classes.

David Reed

Content: US & World History
School: Denbigh High
Years Taught: 22

What do you love most about teaching?
The thing that I love most about teaching is working with young people and watching them grown and succeed!

What word best describes you as a teacher and why?
Empathetic. It is how I try to run my classroom and my classes.

Jamin Riley

Content: World History; Af. Am. History
School: Denbigh High
Years Taught: 8

What do you love most about teaching?
The students. They make me laugh most days. I enjoy getting students engaged with the most interesting or important content.

Why do you love working in NNPS?
My colleagues. They offer support, guidance, and resources whenever I need them.