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8 Gold Teachers

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Derek Pizzuto studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz  (go Banana Slugs!) where he majored in pre and early modern Literature, and earned his Masters from Framingham State.  He enjoys writing poetry and fiction, and is a Civil War reenactor.  Over the years, he has been an activist on a number of issues, and believes strongly that we all need to be active participants in life, and to have a voice - this is why his class theme is "How can a voice be heard?" He is entering his 11th year teaching in Shrewsbury, and can't believe that much time has passed...

Ms. Luby graduated from Assumption College with a B.A. in Mathematics and is a member of Shrewsbury High School’s class of 2007.  During college she traveled to Mexico City to work with underpriveleged  children from a small village and to Mississippi to rebuild a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.  These projects, amongst others, helped strengthen her passion for community service and volunteering.  She is currently the Assistant Coach of Shrewsbury High School’s Gymnastics team, where she is a former captain.  Ms. Luby loves to water ski, to read, and to travel.  Her last adventure lead her to the top of Machu Picchu in Peru!

Mr. Mularella graduated from UMass in 1999 with a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation. He grew up fascinated by the movie Jaws and wanted to be a marine biologist and study great white sharks. He realized teaching was his passion and took a non-traditional route to becoming a teacher through working at summer camps, volunteering in AmeriCorps, and teaching at Nature's Classroom. Mr. M is now entering his 8th year teaching Science at Oak Middle School.

Mr. Mularella is a huge fan of MythBusters, Bill Nye, and trying to break world record heights using Diet Coke and Mentos. Outside of the classroom, he enjoys traveling, spending time outdoors, and playing hockey. Mr. M is a big Pittsburgh Steelers and Montreal Canadiens fan.

Mr. Dunn has a M.A. in Education from Cambridge College, Teacher Certification from Framingham State and a B.A. in Economics from U. of Massachusetts Amherst.

Over his teaching career of twenty-one years he has taught a wide variety of subjects including: microeconomics, ethics, English, geometry, physics, photography, and many areas of history.  Grade level instruction has ranged everything from second grade to undergraduate. The types of schools and locations have also varied; they include: a rural Harambee school in Kenya, an inter city Charter High School in Roxbury, a private Special needs school in Hardwick, and public middle and elementary schools in and around Massachusetts. Recent travels for education have brought him on a twenty-one day journey into China, which included Tibet and a solo run to the Italian cities of Rome and Florence to improve his understanding of the European Renaissance. Mr. Dunn is married with one child. His hobbies include house cleaning, paperwork and mowing the lawn. He has been teaching in Shrewsbury for the past eight years.

Mrs. Beaton is very happy to be working with the ELL students on 8 Gold this year.   After growing up in New Jersey, Mrs. Beaton studied languages and linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.  She has taught English as a Second Language to students of all ages in Indiana, Washington, DC and California.  Mrs. Beaton lives in Shrewsbury with her husband and three children.  She enjoys baking, reading and keeping in touch with friends from around the country. She also likes to spend time bike riding and kayaking near the beach in Rhode Island.

Mrs. Gentile received her formative education in Wales in the United Kingdom.  After moving to America and receiving her U.S. citizenship she finished her education at Lesley University graduating with a B.A. followed by a Masters in Education.  Mrs. G. as her students like to call her, loves to spend time with her two children and husband as well as two cats and a dog. 

You may be surprised to learn that Mrs. G. has participated in a triathlon and this past June raised over $1000 for the U.S. troops in the Boston Red Sox and MGH sponsored Run to Home Base program.  Before coming to Oak while working at Marlborough Public Schools she piloted a program called ‘Stuff-A-Bus’ with her colleagues that filled the shelves of the food pantry and continues to grow every year.  Her philosophy is, “Teaching is not just a vocation – it is a lifestyle, and it is up to us to teach by example.”

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Please email us if you would like to schedule a meeting with the team teachers. Once our schedule is finalized, we will post times we are available to meet with parents.