Senior Mia Guevara has two words to describe her relationship with her father, history teacher Steve Guevara: best friends.
“We're very close,” Mia said. “If he's available, I'll go...
Math and computer science teacher Nicole Sebek grew up struggling to read. During her senior year of high school, Sebek had an argument with her father over her near inability to read. This argument prompted...
As a small charter school, UPA’s limited course catalog is unable to fully cater to the wide variety of interests and goals of the 720 enrolled students. UPA has offered an array of around 50 courses...
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• February 22, 2022
Campus supervisors Cayleigh Coester, Kayla Genio and Elliot Boesch work behind the scenes of the busy school life at UPA in order to create a safe environment for students. However, there is more than...
Upon completing her elementary and primary high school education in Stockholm, Sweden, Smilla Arehult moved to San Jose in early August 2021 to experience American high school education at UPA as a transfer...
Second-generation immigrant Jessica Hernandez, UPA's newest academic counselor, was the first to attend college in her family.
“I had to be a role model in a sense to my younger siblings,”...
Inspired by the rest of her family, most of whom were educators, math teacher Yuqing Xia has known she wanted to be a teacher since childhood.
She grew up speaking Mandarin, learned English,...
From growing up in Sonoma County to taking astronomy courses and phonology abroad in France, Kathryn Beary has embarked on her fair share of exploring and is here to share new food recipes and plants with...
Ever since new economics and sociology teacher Brent Williams was in elementary school, he was interested in history, wars and how the world works.
Williams gained perspective on what the...
On a typical Saturday evening, an eight-year-old Angela Pasquinelli could be seen reenacting school, lecturing and reading books to her four Cabbage Patch kids lined up against the wall. She always wanted...
A young, high school-aged version of new middle school science teacher Deana Arnold nearly cried over her trigonometry homework. Luckily, she found a solution in the form of Mr. Howard—her math teacher...
