About the Teacher

NAME: Rick Short

SCHOOL: Beverly Cleary K-8

CLASS: 7th Gr. Math/Sci./Health

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I am truly excited to be beginning my fourth year here at Beverly Cleary (four 
years? ... wow!).  Before coming here I taught @ Lane MS in southeast Portland.  
I am the parent of a middle schooler (da Vinci) and a ninth grader (Cleveland) 
so I can sympathize with the trials of the teenage years!  My wife and I moved 
to Portland almost twenty years ago and like many others we never left.

I have a B.A. (microbiology) from the Univ. of TX-Austin and an M.Ed. from PSU.

My goals for this year are to foster independent thinking, creativity and 
cooperative learning skills in all my students.