Sophie Forbes

Espanola

I come to the Noyce Master Teacher Fellow Program as a teacher who has worked for 18 years in the inner city, on a reservation, and, since January, 2017, in a small, rural Hispanic school. I am passionate about teaching science, and especially about encouraging young girls to believe that science is something that they can do. I hope to gain more knowledge from the program about culturally responsive teaching, and especially about incorporating indigenous science into my teaching.

Through the Noyce Master Teacher Fellow Program, I hope to broaden my abilities to teach culturally responsive and indigenous science, and to share this knowledge with the broadest network of New Mexico teachers as I can reach. I also hope to gain leadership skills from the program, and learn how to advocate for New Mexico students and teachers at every level of educational delivery. New Mexico students deserve the best science education possible, and I want to help ensure that they receive all that they need to be successful in this field.