About

Mike is in his fifteenth year as an educator and has been at The Potomac School since 2007. In addition to Frameworks of Identity, he teaches English and has also taught social studies and improvisational theater at the middle school level. At Potomac, Mike sponsors the Intermediate School's student newsmagazine and coordinates the eighth grade independent project. Earlier in his career, Mike became the first openly gay teacher at The Park School of Baltimore and founded Park's middle school Gay-Straight Alliance. He has also served as a gradehead at Shady Hill School and as an adjunct professor at American University's School of Education. Mike majored in political science at Yale and earned his masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where, under the guidance of Eleanor Duckworth, he experimented with applying constructivist pedagogy to the challenge of teaching about race.

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Sarah has been an educator for ten years and started working at The Potomac School in 2012. In addition to Frameworks of Identity, she teaches eighth grade physical science and has also taught general science, biology, ecology, and math at the middle school level. At Potomac, Sarah has co-facilitated the Intermediate School Student Council and Student Diversity Alliance and serves on the school's Cultural Competence Leadership Team. Prior to moving back to the East Coast, where she grew up, Sarah was an outdoor educator at the Catalina Island Marine Institute and transitioned into classroom teaching at Blue Oak School in Napa, California. Sarah has also spent time working as an aquarist, diver, and educator in the aquarium industry on both coasts. Her bachelor's degree from Stockton University is in marine science, yet her background in and passion for science spans multiple disciplines.

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