Former Engineer Joins NHS Staff 

Dr. Tupper, a former engineer, is the new science teacher here at Norwood High School. Tupper teaches three classes of honors physics and two classes of physical science. She’s been teaching since 2012, and moved to our high school this year from Tufts University, making this her seventh year teaching professionally, but first-year teaching at Norwood High.

Although welcoming teaching with open arms, Tupper wasn’t always a teacher but rather she worked “as a professional engineer for close to a decade.” 

Tupper majored in “material science as an undergrad and engineering for graduate school,” and “worked at an MIT based startup company called Springleaf Therapeutics from 2007 to 2012,” which she then worked as a student-teacher for the next year after that. From 2013 to 2017 Tupper was hired as a regular teacher and taught at Newton North, then taught at Tufts University in 2018. She also worked at a Draper Lab from 2004 to 2007.

Tupper’s goals for this school year is to “settle in and get comfortable...form relationships with students…[and] get used to the curriculum.” Joining Norwood High’s staff team made Tupper both excited and anxious, as anyone would be at a new job in a new place, but that doesn’t stop her from wanting to teach her students in the best way possible.

Teaching has definitely affected Tupper’s life as she explains that she’s noticed how “different life is for teenagers now” and that this has given her more of an insight into teenage life. Using this knowledge, she hopes to find ways to help those who aren’t confident in class, or who may be struggling.