Hannah Seyb, a recent graduate of the Teacher Education Program at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was named a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellow for 2016. The KSTF Teaching Fellowships, a five-year program, supports, sustains, and inspires exceptional young men and women committed to making a difference as science and mathematics teachers in U.S. high schools. The program provides financial support for tuition assistance, grants, and professional development; professional support in the form of meetings, mentoring, and resources; and a strong, like-minded community of outstanding professional teachers. Seyb is one of only 34 recipients of the teaching fellowships awarded to early-career, high school mathematics and science teachers this year.
Seyb is committed to teaching physics to high school students in the U.S. She earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from Guilford College in 2012 and a M.Ed. and a single subject teaching credential from UC Santa Barbara in 2016. At UCSB she was a 2015-16 CalTeach Physical Sciences and Engineering (CTPSE) Noyce Scholar. Seyb will begin her first year of teaching at Shadow Hills High School in Indio, Calif., this fall.
The Knowles Science Teaching Foundation was established in 1999 by Janet H. and C. Harry Knowles to cultivate and support exemplary science and mathematics high school teachers and develop the next generation of leaders in education.