This month, we recognize Rebecca Newschaffer, 7th grade math teacher at AMY Northwest Middle School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nominated by one of her peers, “Rebecca has been teaching for over 20 years and she has been teaching in Philadelphia for the last 8 years. She is always interested in teaching integrated math and science units that require the use of real time data. She is especially excited about co-teaching the Weather and Climate unit because there is such a wealth of data that students can organize and make claims about. She is looking forward to contributing new resources to the PAESTA Classroom that other teachers can use to engage students. Rebecca has been incorporating the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) strategy when teaching math, requiring students to make claims and provide evidence and reasoning for problem sets. Rebecca is also a respected member of the AMY Northwest family, always making herself available to help her students and colleagues when needed. She made her first presentation at the 3rd Annual PAESTA Conference this year and she truly deserves to be recognized as a PAESTAR!” We at PAESTA certainly agree!

Congratulations, Rebecca - you clearly are a PAESTAR!