I had Mrs. Novad as a home room and English teacher for two years. She was a creative, demanding but caring teacher who made me realize I have an intellect and trained me how to use it. In her class we read A Tale of Two Cities, rewrote it as a musical and filmed it. We read, dissected and travelled to see two Shakespeare plays each year. We read magazines and critiqued them for their editors, and we presented the books we were reading to the Adolescent Literature course she taught at Teachers College at Columbia University. The years I spent with her were my best school years, and I think of her daily now that I'm a midle school teacher.
-Deven Black
Former Student and Current Teacher