About Ilsa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIlsa Dohmen grew up in Texas and attended college in Boston, earning a B.A. in English and Physical Anthropology from Tufts University, before moving to the Bay Area. She earned her M.A. in Anthropological Sciences from Stanford University. Prior to Hillbrook, she worked as a classroom researcher at Stanford, designing and conducting technology- and game-based interventions in 2nd-8th grade math and science classrooms to analyze how learning was impacted by small changes to lesson design. Ilsa joined Hillbrook as the first member of the Resident Teacher Program through the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). She found her place in the classroom as a middle school science teacher before taking on her current role as Director of Teaching & Learning and Director of the CTE. What first drew Ilsa to Hillbrook was how great a place it is to be a child. She finds the space this school carves out for children to enjoy being young and to grow up well, learning, and being challenged, to be exceptional. Over her time here, she has discovered what a great place Hillbrook also is to be an adult\u2014a place for lifelong intellectual and personal challenge, learning, and engagement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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