Meet Sara Jean, Founder
Sara Jean Banks is a master teacher and expert in Project Based Learning and the founder of Tangible Education.
Sara Jean, also known as SJ, has over a decade of experience in the classroom working with K-12 students and has been working with students with diversity of needs and backgrounds for over 15 years throughout the country.
She has led the charge to build Project Based Learning at two different high schools in Denver. She knows PBL works because she witnessed how it transformed classroom learning for some of Denver’s most marginalized students. “It is the type of learning that they have long been denied, but have always deserved.”
She started her career with youth as an Environmental Educator in northern Texas for elementary students. Following her work with younger students, she moved to Hawaii and began her work as an activist working with teenagers across the state to pass tobacco control & comprehensive sex education legislation. Soon after, she earned a Master of Arts in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Denver and began teaching high school science in Denver, Colorado. Over the years, she has continued to serve the students of Denver in different capacities including: instructional coach, Dean of Instruction and as a Site Coordinator for a DPS Teaching Academy.
Sara Jean continues to keep one foot in the classroom - the students are and always have been the focus of her career.
Where it started…
For Sara Jean, her passion to help support new educators began with her experience as a teacher leader.
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