The New Teachers that Lead

  Angela Knutson is new to City High after working for two years at Lone Tree High School. At first Knutson didn’t know what she was going to do after she got her bachelor’s in Biology, but after talking with her father she came to the decision. “My dad said ‘Hey, have you ever thought about teaching?’ and I thought, hmm. I hadn’t really up until then, then I started thinki...

 Math may not be a subject that most high school students enjoy, but for one of City High’s newest Principles of Engineering and Physics teacher, Peter Byler, it’s what shaped his future career. “I really remembered a handful of teachers [from high school], and the teachers I remembered the most happened to be my math teachers. I had five different math teachers in high school and I can ...

South East alumni may remember her from her teaching days at the junior high school, but now Ms. Elizabeth Schau is working in the City High library.  Schau is excited to work with the familiar (and new) faces in her twelfth year of teaching. “[Coming to City] was an exciting opportunity,” Schau said. “I really enjoyed working with junior high students, but I also wanted a chance to work ...

Maria Angulo is one of the new teachers for this new year. She is a new Spanish teacher who has just graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids. Angulo studied sociology and her minors are secondary education, history and Spanish. “I’m a native Spanish speaker, so it was just something that I knew and I wanted to learn more about my heritage and the language itself." said Angulo. "It was als...

Among the new staff members working at City High this year is Ms. Elizabeth Lilly, assistant social worker and certified scuba diver. "I started my career after college working for residential treatment ... hopefully [giving students] positive experiences that would then carry over into school and other areas of their life," said Lilly, who has been a social worker for 23 years.  Lilly worked at...