Organization
High Tech High/High Tech High Graduate School of Education
Matt Leader
Profile
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Biography
Matthew Leader is an 11th grade biology teacher at a project based charter school, High Tech High North County and Science Methods Instructor at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. Before teaching biology, he traveled and volunteered in community development projects in Central and South America and worked in physical sciences and microbiology labs at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Matthew started teaching middle school math and science and has been teaching biology at High Tech High for the past six years. He is a native of San Diego and received a Bachelor of Science at the University of California at San Diego in General Biology and Teaching Credentials at San Diego State University. Matthew is an AmeriCorps alumnus and has recently completed a Masters in Education in Teacher Leadership at the HTH Graduate School of Education and participated in internships with NASA and the J. Craig Venter Institute. He has also really enjoyed his time in recent fellowships including, the NSF funded Socrates Teacher Fellow at UCSD, SDSU’s CTCTC fellowship, and NOAA Climate Stewards Fellowship. In addition to teaching and research, he enjoys surfing, scuba diving, and spending time with his beautiful wife, daughter and son working on their hops farm in San Diego.