Dante De Paola

Classes taught/teaching: Sheltered Biology, Academic Biology, Biotech 2

Prep time:  none

College/major:  UC Berekely BA Human Biodynamics

Interests:  Family, Food, Music, Motorcycle and Hot Rods

Family:  Wife - Tinya, Daughter - Santia, Boy- Gitano

Favorite moments:  Children being born

Gordon Perkins

Classes taught: 

        1st Period, Prep

        2nd Period, Physical Science

        3rd Period, Physical Science

        4th Period, Physical Science

        5th Period, Biology

        6th Period, Physical Science

College: Coastal Carolina University

Major: Biology

Interests: sports, travel, cooking

Classes: Academic Biology, Biotech III: Senior Seminar, Honors Biology

I have been teaching at PHS for 23 years and still love it ! The enthusiasm of teenagers learning about Biology is just amazing and boy do I have fun singing songs and acting out !!. I did my undergraduate work at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo after being a fairly disenchanted high school student, but when I took my first Zoology class at college, I was hooked on Biology and knew then and there I wanted to teach science ! I also teach Pre-Algebra at SRJC in the evenings and appreciate the different demeanor older students bring to the classroom and they laugh at my jokes !! I live in Healdsburg with my husband Ted of 25 + years. Our daughter Kara is a sophomore at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ( where Ted and I met :) and is studying accounting ! Brinda still lives with us as a Healdsburg High Junior and has high hopes she will get into UC Davis and start her Pre-vet program. I love to work in the garden, take yoga classes, play raquetball and am gearing up for a 100 mile bike ride for my 50 th birthday ( coming all too soon !)

Steve Carpenter