Dave Orphal
Lead Teacher: Atlas Program, Oakland Unified School District1 year 29 weeks
Bio
This is Mr. Orphal's third year as a Skyline Titan in Oakland, California. After graduating from Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, California in 1989, Mr. Orphal left the East Bay suburbs for the redwood forest and Humboldt State University. After receiving his BA and Teaching Credential at HSU, Mr. Orphal began a ten-year career at Zoe Barnum High School in Eureka CA. Mr. Orphal has also lectured at Humboldt State University for the Education Department. In 1997, he won a Fulbright-memorial Teacher Scholarship to travel to Japan for three weeks talking with teachers about the future of education. In 2003, Mr. Orphal took a year's leave from his teaching duties to make documentary films for the non-profit Tostan organization in Senegal, West Africa. Mr. Orphal and his partner, Wendy Bliss, live in El Cerrito, California.
In addition to his teaching duties, Dave is a mentor for the New Millennial Initative, a Bay Area think-tank for young teachers. He is also involved in the creation of another think tank for the Caifornia Teachers' Association's Institute for Teaching.
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