JESSICA WHITNEY NEWVILLE
Mathematics Teacher
Santa Paula High School
Santa Paula, CA

By the time she reached high school, Jessica Newville knew she enjoyed math. Encouraged by her calculus and statistics teacher to pursue a math major in college, Jessica enrolled in California Lutheran University where she joined the math lab. Surrounded by posters of Einstein and 200 digits of Pi, she tutored in the lab one night a week. Within her freshman year she realized where her math degree would land her: in a high school classroom teaching mathematics. She is particularly interested in furthering girls in mathematics and sciences.

Jessica went on to earn her teaching certificate from California Lutheran University. As part of her college career, she spent a semester at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Guanajuato, Mexico, where she tutored English at a local high school. She has worked as a camp counselor and recreational leader for teen and children’s centers since 2004.

A Californian to the core, Jessica loves spending time outdoors in the California sun hiking, camping and spending a day at the beach. Teaching runs in the family: Jessica’s mother is a community college professor.