About Me (Ms. Wright)
When I was in middle school, I wanted to be a mathematician, an author, or someone who worked for NASA -- not as a glamorous astronaut, but as a person in Mission Control solving the hard problems so the astronauts could explore for all of us. I never did become any of those things, exactly, and yet I sort of did. I've been drawn to writing over and over through my life; I've enjoyed doing years of math as a scientist, parent, and teacher; and now I am basically doing Mission Control to help kids explore math and achieve for all of us and our future. (And from that metaphor, you can tell I stayed proudly nerdy the entire time!)
This year (2020-2021) will be my first year at Jackson Middle School. I've been a teacher since 2009, most recently for six years at da Vinci Arts Middle School, where I taught sixth and eighth grade math. Before that, I was a math and science teacher at several middle schools and high schools in the Portland area, where I taught math to students in sixth through twelfth grades and physical science to seventh and ninth graders. Teaching is my second workplace career, following my previous experiences as a technical and grant proposal writer for a chemistry software company and being a stay-at-home parent to my two sons (who were/are both PPS students). I was a math and chemistry double major at Swarthmore College, have a master's degree in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University, and got my teaching degree with an Advanced Math endorsement from Lewis & Clark in 2009, adding a Chemistry endorsement in 2011. I became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2018. I believe passionately that all students can thrive and grow as they use math to solve problems and study our world.
I hope you will feel free to contact me with any questions. My email address is [email protected] (be sure to include the 2!). I look forward to working with you!
This year (2020-2021) will be my first year at Jackson Middle School. I've been a teacher since 2009, most recently for six years at da Vinci Arts Middle School, where I taught sixth and eighth grade math. Before that, I was a math and science teacher at several middle schools and high schools in the Portland area, where I taught math to students in sixth through twelfth grades and physical science to seventh and ninth graders. Teaching is my second workplace career, following my previous experiences as a technical and grant proposal writer for a chemistry software company and being a stay-at-home parent to my two sons (who were/are both PPS students). I was a math and chemistry double major at Swarthmore College, have a master's degree in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University, and got my teaching degree with an Advanced Math endorsement from Lewis & Clark in 2009, adding a Chemistry endorsement in 2011. I became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2018. I believe passionately that all students can thrive and grow as they use math to solve problems and study our world.
I hope you will feel free to contact me with any questions. My email address is [email protected] (be sure to include the 2!). I look forward to working with you!