Danielle DeLaurentis, the new Geometry, Algebra 2, and Pre-Algebra teacher, seems to have a true love for her subject. She has always enjoyed math and “really started to fall in love with it” when she took Calculus in college at UC Santa Cruz. To DeLaurentis, calculus was like solving puzzles.
The history of mathematics was fascinating: “Learning why and how people did math for thousands of years, sort of put the math that I was doing in my classes into perspective.”
Since elementary school, Ms. DeLaurentis has had an interest in teaching, an interest that became serious in college. After working in classrooms, she decided to train to become a math teacher.
After living in Santa Cruz and attending UC Santa Cruz, DeLaurentis relocated to Berkeley to get her masters in math education and teaching credential at UC Berkeley.
She has lived in Berkeley for the past few years now and although she likes the gourmet grocery stores and restaurants in the Bay Area, she still misses the beach from time to time.
For the past six years, she has been working in classrooms both in Santa Cruz and in the East Bay and has loved it.
When asked what she enjoys so far about Albany High, DeLaurentis said that after teaching middle school, she likes being in a high a school environment: “The students here are great – they manage to keep me on my toes and smiling.”
As for what she’s excited about for the coming school year, she says that right now she is just excited to be at Albany High and to learn something new about the community every day. “As always… I am excited about teaching math! Who doesn’t get excited about proofs and graphs of equations in three variables?”
