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   I am so excited to start the new year with each and every one of you.  I have taught for over 27 years now and I am just as excited today to meet you as my first year teaching. So whether you have me as your algebra , geometry, or academy teacher, welcome to my class.  I hope to instill in you a love of math that will stay with you for a life time.  I think you will find as many students have said that I am a teacher that is slightly very weird but fun with very high expectations.  

     I graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in Education and a minor in Mathematics.  I have taught 7th grade and 8th grade Mathematics, Algebra 1, and Geometry.  I currently teach SAIL Algebra and Pre-AP Geometry, and an awesome class called Math Academy.  Math Academy is an elective for kids who love math.  Yes, they do exist!!!

    In 2013, I was the Secondary Teacher of the year for the Flour Bluff School District.  I am currently the Math Department chair, and I work very hard at trying to help our school grow into the amazing school we have the potential to be.

 I am the coach of the Flour Bluff Junior High Academic Team.  We have an amazing team at our school. We are the State TMSCA Champions for 38 years in a row in 5A.  I am also the coach of our school’s MathCounts team.  We are currently the Regional MathCounts Champions.

    It is said you can tell a person’s passion by what they want to talk about.  I love mathematics, but even more than that, I love teaching.  There is nothing I like more than talking education with other professionals.  I consider teaching an art, and teachers the artists.  Your children are my canvas,  my goal for each of you is that your will leave my class with a love of math and a confidence to do whatever you want in life.  

For the Parents:

My Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy can best be described by this analogy:

    If a surgeon performs a surgery and doesn’t make a single mistake–and the patient still dies–the surgeon does not pat himself on the back and consider it a successful surgery.  Likewise, if I do everything I know to do in my efforts to reach a child yet fail to change that child in a positive way, then “the surgery” was not successful.  A child’s failure is my failure.  I have to be willing and able to continue to try things with a student until I find what it will take to change that student.  In education, there are certain things that every teacher is required to do:  teach the lesson, cover the standards, call parents for failures, and be professional.  Teaching is not a bunch of boxes that need to be checked off.  Doing the bare minimum does not reach children.  I must be willing to do whatever it takes for every child to be successful.  

    I have found over the years that holding myself to that standard made me a better teacher.  I want to promise you that I will try and do everything I can to reach your child and help them to reach their potential.  

    My promise to you as parents is that I will always strive to push your child to be the absolute best they can be as both a students and citizen.  

Contact Information:

School Phone: 361-694-9368

Room: 434

School Email: agillespey@flourbluffschools.net    

 Personal Website:  Mathninja.org (There is lots of great information and videos on my site)

Daily Bell Schedule

1st Period 8:15 am – 9:05 am Gt Algebra

2nd Period: 9:09 am – 9:59 am Geometry

3rd Period: 10:03 am – 10:58 am Geometry

4th Period: 11:02 am – 11:52 am GT Algebra

5th Period (Lunch): 11:56 am – 1:30 am GT Algebra

1st Lunch: 11:56  am – 12:26 pm

2nd Lunch: 12:28 pm – 12:58 pm

3rd Lunch: 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

6th Period: 1:34 pm – 2:24 pm Math Academy

7th Period: 2:28 pm – 3:04 pm Math Academy/Advisory

8th Period: 3:08 pm – 3:58pm Conference Period