The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, as the highest K-12 teaching award a teacher could ever hope to achieve, is an incredible honor to the recipient. It represents an acknowledgment of exemplary teaching. While it recognizes these teachers and their teaching skills on a national scale, it also credits all of the students and mentors that these great teachers have learned from in order to succeed at this level.

Jacqueline Curley Sterling, VA | 7-12, Science, 2011

The official biography below was current at the time of the award.

For the past 7 years, Jackie Curley has taught Integrated Science Nine (for freshmen) and Independent Research (for juniors and seniors) at the Loudoun County Academy of Science. In Integrated Science Nine, physics, chemistry, and earth science are taught in an integrated, inquiry style.  For Independent Research, each junior and senior is mentored in a research project of their own design. Jackie spent the previous 14 years teaching Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Advanced Placement (AP) Biology at Oakton High School in Vienna, VA. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Jackie serves as the Director of Research for the Academy and mentors new teachers. For Loudoun County, she coordinates the Wolbachia research project. She is also a book reviewer for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is a member of the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) and was the state NABT Outstanding Biology Teacher awardee for 2008. Jackie has also served as an AP Biology Reader. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering in the lab with Dr. Geraldine Grant at George Mason University.    Jackie has a B.S. in nutritional studies from the University of Connecticut and an M.S.Ed. from George Mason University. She is certified in biology and chemistry in the State of Virginia.

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