Jamie (Brigante) Mulcahy

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I graduated from Saint Michael’s College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a licensure in Secondary Education. After graduation I taught 8th grade math for one year at Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School. I had a fabulous first year of teaching working with an awesome team of teachers, however, I decided to move to the seacoast area of New Hampshire the following year. I was lucky to be hired at Oyster River High School in Durham. I have been a high school mathematics teacher at this school now for eight years and I enjoyed being the JV field hockey coach during my first year at the school. While teaching in NH, I completed my Master’s of Education degree in Counseling at the University of New Hampshire in 2012.

Although I love New Hampshire, I am relocating this summer back to Vermont. I have accepted a high school math teaching position at my alma mater, Colchester High School, starting in the fall of 2016. Not only am I excited to start a new teaching job in my hometown, I am also very excited to be closer to my large family in Vermont.

I attribute many of my successes in my career and life to my experiences at Saint Michael’s College. First of all, my education prepared me to teach a wide variety of classes at the high school level. I have always been confident teaching the mathematical content in my courses and encouraging in-depth mathematical thinking in my classroom. I especially value the small class sizes and availability of my professors outside of the classroom during college. The relationships that I developed with my professors and the experiences that I had throughout my time at Saint Michael’s definitely helped to instill a deep love of learning in me. It is now my goal as a high school teacher to teach mathematics, but also to instill this love of learning in my students.