Bio
Francis Lewis High School is the fourth largest high school in the City with 4300 students, almost all of whom live in south Flushing and Fresh Meadows, Queens. From day one as a newly minted New York City Teaching Fellow, Ms. Kim has impressed her colleagues with her ability to teach students at all levels of preparation. For eight years, her patience, perseverance, and gift for lucid mathematical explanation have achieved remarkable results. Recently assigned to teach second-year algebra to students who had all failed Algebra I, she went to work. A year later, two-thirds of those students passed the Regents exam, an astonishing achievement. Says a former Francis Lewis principal, “She reaches kids whom some folks would say are unreachable.”
