Sheila+Miller

Sheila Miller, world traveler and teacher, was born in Missoula, Montana, but has called Boise, Idaho home for most of her life. She attended Boise schools and graduated from the University of Idaho with a double major in Political Science and Spanish. She attended Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador for a year then added 2 more years at BSU, studying Education. Sheila has a Master's Degree in Curriculum & Instruction with emphases in Bilingual Ed and ESL/ENL. Her passion about her education has translated into her passion for teaching. Sheila's teaching assignments have taken her from teaching Spanish at Bishop Kelly to teaching Japanese, Spanish, and, for a time, sheltered US History at Borah High School, her alma mater. In between those two schools was a two-year stop at Kwassui Gakuin Jr High and High School in Nagasaki, Japan, where she taught English and Spanish and a 5 year assignment teaching Spanish at Hillside Jr. High. Sheila enjoys teaching so much that she has devoted many summers to teaching, variously, US History 9 & 11, American Government, and Economics. When it comes to teaching, Sheila is very thoughtful about what qualities she values in her students and her classroom; open mindedness, curiosity, integrity, and commitment. She loves teaching and appreciates the laughter she shares with her students. Her favorite teacher was Jim Hutcherson, "Hutch", a retired teacher from Borah. Hutch challenged his students to support their opinions and to write succinctly--"No BS." Sheila credits his Humanities class as where she learned to write. Even in the difficulty of teaching her students to make sense of the senseless after Columbine and 9-11, Sheila is optimistic about her best days of teaching: they are yet to come.

Here is my Google Search story that is an example rubric of what my students need to do:

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