About Miss Gurganus
My name is Kyla Gurganus, and I have been teaching at Lincoln High School for twenty-one years (since Fall 1999). I graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Michigan University in 1997 with a B.A. in professional chemistry with honors in general studies. I received my teaching certificate in 1999 and am certified to teach chemistry and mathematics in grades 6-12 in Michigan.
School doesn't end for teachers! I completed my Master's Degree in Children's Literature at Eastern Michigan University in 2005; now I am taking occasional workshops and summer programs.
I am a member of Crossroads Community Baptist Church (a Southern Baptist church) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and teach children's Sunday School there. I am also very active in Samaritan's Purse's Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection.
Professionally, I am a member of the American Chemical Society, Metro Detroit Science Teachers Association, Detroit Area Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Phi Kappa Phi, the National Science Teaching Association, American Modeling Teachers Association, the Michigan Education Association, and the National Education Association.
I love to travel and have taken a big trip every year since I started teaching. I am working on websites for all my trips but here are a few of them:
2000: Europe on my own
2001: Europe with my sister
2002: Ireland
2003: Las Vegas; Togo, West Africa; and Walking the Mackinac Bridge
2004: Grand Canyon; Mall of America; Alaska and Seattle; New York City; Caribbean cruise
2005: Yellowstone; Québec, Prince Edward Island, and Maine; Glacier National Park; Caribbean cruise
2006: Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and England/Wimbledon, Christmas cruise
2007: Hawaii cruise, Oxford and Scandinavia, Portugal, Zion National Park
2008: Hong Kong; San Francisco; Avignon and Nice, France
2009: Madrid, Spain; New Orleans; France and Spain
2010: Cruise to Yucatan, Mexico; China; road trip east; Christmas cruise
2011: Andalusia, Spain; road trip to Orlando and Washington, D.C., Niagara Falls, Christmas cruise
2012: Berlin and Dresden, Germany; Italy and the Netherlands
2013: San Diego; Costa Rica; Western NY State; Christmas cruise
2014: Northern Italy; Vicksburg road trip
2015: Idaho; Cumberland Gap; Amicalola Falls; Tuscany and Rome; Fort Lauderdale
2016: Boston, Up North; Colorado
2017: Athens, Greece; South Dakota; France; Frankfurt, Germany
2018: Colonial Virginia, road trip out west, Jacksonville
2019: Cincinnati; Port Austin, MI; Acadia National Park; Austin, Texas
2020: Local adventures