Bio
Teaching high school science is demanding, but when the students are recent immigrants who speak Chinese, Russian, Urdu or one of 17 other languages, the challenges are magnified. Yet, Kara MacDevitt, has achieved extraordinary success by providing hands-on, rigorous science activities that also foster language development. A devoted afterschool tutor, 90 percent of her seniors who take the Living Environment Regents exam pass.Considered “a master teacher and a teaching mentor,” she works with colleagues to align coursework across disciplines. A history teacher’s lesson on the Black Death results in a related lesson on disease transmission in her science class.
