Jessica Olamit
Jessica Olamit is an English and history teacher at Mission Hill Middle School in Santa Cruz, California. For the past ten years she has also been an AVID Elective teacher and coordinator. Jessica has been a National Staff Developer for AVID Center for the past two years as a trainer for Critical Reading.
Jessica Olamit received her Bachelors of Arts degree in History at the University of California, San Diego with a minor in Education. She went on to earn her Masters Degree in Education from the University of California, at Santa Cruz.
Jessica is deeply passionate about and committed to providing all of her students with quality instruction in academic literacy. She believes that all students can succeed academically with exposure to rigorous content, combined with specific and purposeful instruction in reading and writing.
