Rick Pinchot
Fourth Grade Math & Science
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Rick Pinchot |
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Most people know me as a Steelers fan. I grew up in Pennsylvania and have rooted for the Steelers and Pirates my entire life. (I usually don’t bring up the Pirates unless someone asks.) As a child, I loved to play and watch almost any sport. Williamsport, PA, my home town, is the home of the Little League World Series and I spent many August days watching and wishing I was on the field. Unfortunately, my 12 year old all star team fell a few games short of making it back home. I went to school in Jersey Shore, PA. I know the name is a little misleading. There is some story about how the shores of the Susquehanna River reminded the founders of the New Jersey shore. From there I went to Penn State (Go Lions!) and majored in Meteorology. My son will tell you, I truly am a “mad scientist”. After college, the Navy forced me to go to some town in northeast Florida called Jacksonville. I wasn’t sure of what I was getting into, but Jacksonville turned out to be a fabulous place for me. That’s where I met my lovely wife Alicia to who I’ve been married for 19 years. All three of my beautiful children were born in Jacksonville also. Two of them, Morgan and Zach, now attend Fletcher High and the third, Noah, comes to school with me at Chets Creek. I am so fortunate that all of my children have or are still attending Chets. I don’t know of a better elementary school. I began teaching
shortly after Noah was born in 2000. Inspired by my wife and two sisters
who had been teaching a combined 45 years, I began as an ESE teacher in Mrs.
Shall’s and Mrs. Phillip’s rooms. These two ladies taught me so much during
my first year. I don’t think I would still be teaching if not for them.
Over the next eight years I taught gifted students, taught across the hall
from my wife (much easier than it sounds), became a math coach, and
conducted Math Investigation workshops for Duval County as well as schools
in Georgia and Kentucky. The past three years have been spent teaching
math, science, and social studies in the intermediate grades, where I truly
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