By Navdeep Kaur
Staff Writer | The Pacific Time
Angie Dorokhin-Pedres chose to be a teacher because she wanted to be the role model she wished she’d had.
Pedres said she strived to be a first-generation Mexican woman teaching mathematics, since she did not see any Mexican women picking up that mantle during her primary and secondary school days.
Pedres is an NP3 alumni who graduated in 2020. She studied at California State University in Sacramento where she earned her bachelor’s in Mathematics in three years thanks to taking so many AP classes in high school. She also completed Sacramento State’s teaching credential program, student teaching Integrated Math I to freshmen at C.K. McClatchy .
Pedres started her career teaching math, geometry, and Algebra II at NP3 High. She is also a 9th grade advisor. It had been her dream to return and teach at NP3.
“The concept of advisory is one of the driving reasons why I wanted to return to NP3 since not a lot of schools have this concept embedded in their values,” said Pedres. “I want to be the best advisor I can be to my current group of students, the same way that Principal Mori was to me.”
As a student, Pedres said she saw NP3 as a place of opportunities.
Pedres said her father heard about the academic rigor of NP3, and decided that she needed to enroll in middle school to take advantage of the educational opportunities that neither he nor her mother had in Mexico.
“My goal at this school is to create a mark that continues to uphold the values of NP3 that strongly were shown during my time here as a student. In specific, diversity, equity, and community building,” said Pedres, who has enjoyed her time teaching at NP3.hers.
Outside of teaching, Pedres likes to hang out and play video games with her husband and her friends.
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