Jose Caballero, alumnus of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, was named one of the Santa Barbara Independent’s Local Heroes in their November 22, 2017 edition of the paper. Caballero received the award to honor his 16 years of teaching at Santa Barbara High School. “If Jose Caballero’s Advanced Placement Environmental Science (APES) class were a Broadway show, it’d be standing-room only,” the article about him begins. “He teaches five sections of the class at Santa Barbara High School and every year has to turn away students. Caballero also has to turn away kids who want to take his Small-Scale Food Production class, which meets at 7 a.m. — called zero period — and gives 38 students seven-days-a-week responsibility for row crops, chickens, bees, catfish, and the hydro- and aquaponics setups.”
Caballero earned his single subject credential in science and M.Ed. from the Teacher Education Program in 2003. He also earned his undergraduate degree at UC Santa Barbara, majoring in ecology and evolution, physical anthropology, and zoology.