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Suzanne Zurilgen Strauss
Suzanne is a world traveler, who has experienced, observed, and been a participant in world-wide educational practices. Her concentration, however, has been on centralized Europe, especially German...view moreSuzanne is a world traveler, who has experienced, observed, and been a participant in world-wide educational practices. Her concentration, however, has been on centralized Europe, especially Germany. Suzanne has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire.
She spent 22 years teaching in American high schools, and the year (98-99) in a German Gesamtschule (the “equivalent” of our high school), as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher. She spent a year as an U C Berkeley Education Abroad student at the University of Goettingen, Germany, and three other years living in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
She also taught on both the East and the West Coasts of the United States, from schools with 50 in a graduating class to 750, using programs such as: Tech Prep, Career Pathways, School to Career, and Communication 2000 (all basically different names for approximately the same school-to-work philosophy for the other-than-traditional-college-committed kid). She has piloted new programs, watched de-tracking derail, led seminars and workshops, spoke in conferences, written grants and received funds to do innovative and new programs. These “terrific” programs were designated by the federal or state government as being the latest, greatest “special projects”. Then watched them crash and burn because funds ran out. She has team taught, shuttled back and forth between two school sites, and taught abroad.view less
Books by Suzanne Zurilgen Strauss
The Abc’S of Education: Euro-American Style: An Alternative Approach to Education