Educator of the Year to Retire in 2012
After 39 years as a math teacher at Lake Zurich High School, Steve Ellis plans on putting away his calculator next year.
Next year, Lake Zurich High School math teacher Steve Ellis will come full circle with his teaching career, retiring after 39 years from the same place he began his career. “A friend from college was teaching at Lake Zurich High School and that’s how I got my foot into the door,” said Ellis. Since then, he has taught every math class LZHS has offered. For the last 24 years, he has taken on teaching Advanced Placement calculus classes and, according to Math Department Chairman Jeff Biven, “prepared and guided over 800 students for one of the advanced placement calculus exams.” Ellis has a 90% success rate in his students achieving a score of three or more. According to The College Board, which administers the Advanced Placement exams, a …
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