Pete Silva:
CLASS OF 1973
Stevens High SchoolClass of 1973
Rapid city, SD
University of Northern IowaClass of 2001
Cedar falls, IA
Carroll CollegeClass of 1975
Helena, MT
Pete's Story
Life
Life is good.
College
In 1977 i earned my BA in Spanish with a minor in English and a concentration. in Secondary Education. i began teaching high school in Montana in 1978. In 1986 i moved to the twin cities in Minnesota and i taught in a suburb of Minneapolis for ten years. i was also director of the theater program of the district and I taught acting and directed productions as I had in Montana. In 1998 I started my MA degree. I spent four summers in northwestern Spain. I got my MA in Spanish literature. I still go back and spend some summers with the family I lived with in Santiago de la Compostela. I walked the 500 mile Camino de Santiago across northern Spain in 2013. I will always be grateful to Sra Bravo, our high school Spanish teacher, for guiding me into a career in teaching Spanish. She gave u...Expand for more
p many preparation periods to tutor me and she kept in contact during my college years. Everyone deserves a teacher in his or her life that they can relate to and who takes an interest in them. Sra Bravo was an extraordinary teacher who taught us only in Spanish and shared stories of her native Cuba before the revolution. My sister, Mary, loved her as much as I did. I am now in year 35 of a pretty amazing teaching career. I am also,on the Board of,Directors for the Connecticut Education Association. I have to say that my time in the debate team was well spent and all that i learned from people like John Sanderford etc. helped me enormously throughout my life.
My favorite memory from hs is Joe Valet standing up during the test in Mr. Binder's class urging our row NOT to cheat. He became one of my heroes that day.
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