On our show today, Julie Zaborac! She’s a physics teacher at West Aurora High School. Julie has a very clear teaching philosophy: play, play, and play some more.
Sometimes that looks like rolling food cans down the hallway and sometimes that looks like her students growing synthetic rubies in a microwave!
We talk about how Julie accidentally became a teacher, her career detour into homeschooling, and why it’s so important -- as a student recently told her -- to learn just enough physics to keep you out of the hospital.
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SHOW NOTES
Educator in this episode:
Julie Zaborac
Stories in this episode:
Illinois schools are still trying to solve persistent chronic absence problems
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