Trends In Education
TEACHER OF INTEREST
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JEFFREY BUSH
Lives in: Melbourne Beach
Age: 52
School: Vero Beach High School
Family: Wife, Cindy
Education: University of
California-San Diego, degree in
biochemistry; National University,
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in education technology.
Background: Grew up in Burlington, Vt.
How I got into teaching: “I went to college in California.
Stayed there most of my life.” He became interested in teaching
biotechnology while receiving his degrees. “It’s a broadbased
topic. Biotechnology is related to all types of science.”
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What I like best about teaching: “What everybody’s doing
behind the scenes to help the kids.”
Something my students probably don’t know about me: “A
friend of mine (from high school in Vermont) and I have seen
every national park in the U.S.” They set the goal about 20
years ago for backpacking trips.
Students Payton Fecca, left, and Andrew Cassera, right, pay attention as
Bush gives them instructions for a biotechnology project.
Teacher of the Year award.”
Now in his fourth year with the Indian River County
School District, Bush and his wife, Cindy, left overcrowded
Southern California and decided to live near Vero Beach after
visiting his father. Bush found a job with VBHS. Cindy, a
former science teacher, started a home décor business. They
bought a house in Melbourne Beach.
They are both ocean oriented and fell in love with the
area. It sometimes reminds Bush of the North Shore of Oahu
in Hawaii, where he also lived, with its “laid back surfer
mentality.”
Aside from enjoying the water activities in the area, the
Bushes have done a lot of bike touring. “We biked across the
country a few times and biked across Europe,” he says. “Biking
in Europe is just awesome.”
His enthusiasm for talking with people throughout the
country and Europe on his trips is only outmatched by his
passion for “what students are doing” in his biotech program.
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