mccalla
Science Research teacher Ms. McCalla is very dedicated to her students, and through her dedication she finds her empowerment. “I don’t know if everybody receives their proper recognition because it’s hard for some people to exude their excellence here. We have great students, but that doesn’t always correlate back to the teacher. I think that it’s more visual here, in the research program, because the kids say their success is tied to me, which empowers me.” Ms. McCalla believes in the potential of all of her students, especially her girls. “At Intel finals eight out of the top ten finalists were boys, and that definitely did strike a chord with me because there were brilliant projects there by brilliant girls, and they didn’t make it to the top ten. I don’t know if it was their personalities because that does play a role, but there are some biases in judging. That’s something that I have my eye on.”
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