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Shayna Loebig

Shayna Loebig is the kind of teacher principals salivate over: curiously intelligent, self-reflective, and fiercely compassionate. Becoming an intricate part of the fabric of her school is of great importance to Shayna, and she’s wasted no time in doing so.

Approaching a third-year of teaching at Cesar Chavez High School in Houston ISD, Shayna has built a portfolio of projects only a teacher deeply committed to her school would pursue. After completing an undergraduate degree in physics as Louisiana State University, Shayna decided to pursue research and attended a PhD program at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine. Soon after, she decided to shorten her studies and teach, and while writing her master’s thesis in biochemistry, Shayna began her first month as a ninth grade science teacher in August of 2009. Shayna recalled her first months of teaching: “I wound up immediately loving [teaching] and sort of regretting I hadn’t done it sooner.”

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