Local named Educator of the Year
"As a child, he taught his sister to read when he was in first grade and she was in kindergarten. Despite that story, Lance was not sure of his career aspirations for some time. Clearly going into teaching was the right choice. Lance, a Hillsdale High School English teacher, was named Educator of the Year from the California League of High Schools for both his region and statewide at the annual conference in Monterey earlier this month.
Don Dawson, a member of the California Teachers’ Association Board of Directors, noting Lance was chosen for a number of reasons including his work in transforming Hillsdale into small learning communities, but also “involvement of the students in exciting projects such as the micro-loans to Guatemalan women and the student-produced video about it.”
Lance humbly points to the supportive nature of Hillsdale faculty that makes any of these projects possible."