April 25th, 2012
03:15 PM ET
National Teacher of the Year's "business model"
2012 Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki shares how she used lessons from her business background in the classroom.
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That anchor wanted to push her off the air SO quickly!
As an industrial research chemist who became a high school chemistry and physics teacher, I found that high school curricula are not as friendly to "applied" science as it is to "theory." The plan is to make sure the students get a thorough grounding in theory before moving on to college or industry. Of course, students get a lot more excited about applied science: they can see it's all actually good for something.