Julie Brackin

Julie Brackin is grateful for the opportunity to explore the wonder and meaning of math with the Logic School students of The Ecclesial School at St. Alban’s. In May of 1981 after graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in zoology from the University of Maine, Julie moved to Florida and soon made the career decision to become a teacher. When she announced this to her family, her mother exclaimed, “I knew you would become a teacher one day! You were always ‘playing school’ with your sisters!” Before having her own children, she received her Florida Professional Educator Certificate in middle grades science and high school biology and chemistry. For five years, she taught middle and high school science at a small Christian school in Orlando and then for one year in a public middle school.

Feeling a call to homeschool, she spent the next twenty years not only providing an education for her children but helping others instruct their children in science and math at co-ops and in private settings. Every year she received mounting requests, even pleas for math tutoring. She wondered why so many students and parents struggled with math, feeling inept and ill-prepared.

It was during this time that she thought more deeply about how learning in general and learning math specifically happen. Upon hearing about The Ecclesial School, she knew she wanted to be a part of this vision of “expanding access to extraordinary education.” She !