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Kate Philpott
Teacher
East Side Community High School
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Biography
Kate has been teaching at East Side Community High School since 2003, although her connection to East Side dates back to 1999, when she completed her student teaching placement here while earning a Master's Degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a Boston native who moved to New York City in 1994 to attend Barnard College, where she majored in political science. She also spent her junior year abroad in England, studying politics, philosophy, and economics at Oxford University. Before returning to East Side "for good" in 2003, she taught in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and overseas in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Besides teaching, travel is one of Kate's main passions. She has travelled throughout Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, India, Thailand, South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Western and Eastern Europe, Mexico, Israel, and Guatemala. She has been able to incorporate much of what she has learned through her travels into the History curriculum here at East Side. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiance, Ryan Jensen.
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