SUSAN PRITCHARD, Ph.D.
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Welcome. My name is Dr. Susan Pritchard and I am widely known as “Dr. P.” I served nearly 33 years as a STEM educator in the La Habra City School District, and prior to that, was privileged to both work as a teacher and an administrator in private Catholic schools. I am currently the Vice President of the La Habra City School District School Board. Additionally I proudly serve on the La Habra Area Chamber of Commerce board. I strongly support people’s rights, local businesses, balanced fiscal responsibility, and a safe and welcoming community for both residents and visitors.
I was elected three times, state-wide, to the board of the California Science Teachers Association. I served a total of ten years, including as president from 2007 - 2009. I was appointed and served as a member of the California Teachers Advisory Council (Cal TAC) from 2007 – 2011. I was honored to be chosen as one of twelve, out of over 300,000 California educators, to serve on Cal TAC. My responsibilities included collaborating with the California Chancellor’s Office, the California Board of Education, the National Laboratories, many state-wide technology and science companies, and local politicians. I enjoyed working passionately with the California Council on Science and Technology to increase appropriate inclusion of technology throughout education in our great state.
I am grateful for receiving Congressional Recognition for Woman’s History Month of 2022 by Honorable Congresswoman Young Kim as well as presented, as the teacher moderator for the La Habra Water Guardians, on both floors of the California State Legislature in 2017. Additional honors include recognition as one of the OC Register’s Classroom Heroes of 2013 and one of the OC Register’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015. I am humbled with a variety of education awards including Hughes Excellence in Science and Math Education, Project Tomorrow’s Vision for Excellence Award, Top-Ten National semi-finalist for the NSTA Shell outstanding Science Educator Award and as the 2016 STEM Teacher of the Year Award bestowed by Honorable State Senator Ling Ling Chang.
I am a published author of Watch Out for the Water Guardians in the December 2018 issue of California Educator, Vol. 22(Issue 3); the co-author of “Project CONNECT-Connecting Middle Schools, High Schools, and University Students Through Technology” in the 1998 edition of The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers: 20th Annual National Technical and Career Conference in Orlando, Florida; and author of Visit to China in News Links, (International School Services) , January of 1988 Vol. VII issue. I have been a contributing author for the CCS-California Classroom Science Journal of the California Science Teachers Association from 2001 through 2011 as well as a contributing editor for the Hughes K-12 Education’s Science Matters/Math Counts publications from 1995 through 1997. As serving as a literary reviewer I contributed for the NSTA, for the Teacher Institute at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Paleontological Society.
UC IRVINE BACHELOR DEGREE SOCIAL ECOLOGY
CSU FULLERTON MASTERS IN LEADERSHIP
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Ph.D IN RESEARCH AND HIGHER EDUCATION
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED TEACHER EARLY ADOLESCENCE SCIENCE
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