BY
EARLENE WARD - FOR THE SIERRA STAR
Two new teachers
have been hired by the Yosemite Joint Union High School District
for the alternative education programs.
Brandon Brokaw will be teaching at Mountain View High School and
Karen Falat will be at Foothill High School.
Brokaw is a graduate of Fresno State University where he earned
a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and a multiple subject teaching
credential. He has previously taught at Dixieland Elementary School
in Madera. He was also the school site technology mentor at Dixieland.
He also worked as a library technician at Millview Elementary in
Madera.
Brokaw volunteered as a Special Olympics swim meet life guard in
June 1994.
Falat earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Fresno
State University and holds a multiple subject credential. She has
taken courses in the Special Education Mild to Moderate Program
at Colombia College and Reedley College. She was most recently the
academic advisor and events coordinator at Sierra Charter School
in Fresno. She was curriculum librarian at the school before assuming
her most recent position. As curriculum librarian, she built the
entire kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum library and set up a
computer system. Falat also wrote curriculum for computer classes,
fine arts, economics, high school science and several elective classes.
She wrote the biology and chemistry proposals to meet the University
of California entrance requirements for Sierra Charter School. Falat
is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
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