Nick Ferentinos's Page

First Name:

Nick

Last Name:

Ferentinos

Hometown:

Brooklyn, NY

School/Organization Name:

Retired

Job Title:

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City:

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State:

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My Story:

I was a student journalist from my junior year in high school through college, where I served on every publication—newspaper, yearbook, humor magazine and literary magazine. After teaching English for 11 years, I became the adviser to The Epitaph, the student newspaper at Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif. I advised for 18 years until 1994. I have remained active in scholastic journalism in one capacity or another nearly all my life, right up to the present. I left the classroom in 2000 to become a full-time mentor teacher in the Silicon Valley New Teacher Project, and until recently, I worked for the New Teacher Center at UC Santa Cruz training new mentors around the country.

My Ideal School is a Place Where:

Students are at the center.

My Religious Views:

Private.

My Political Views:

I'm a lifelong liberal Democrat

My Favorite Freedom:

Speech, of course

My Personal Heroes:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

My Personal Motto:

See the quotation below.

My Favorite Journey:

To New Zealand

Recommended Reading:

Anything by Thomas Pynchon.

Recommended Web sites:

Too many.

Quotable:

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

John Lennon