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Jason Gacek

6th Grade Language Arts, Geography

jgacek@novaschool.org

"Teaching Language Arts and Geography affords me the opportunity to foster student expression in a variety of mediums. I am always so impressed with how wise and insightful young people are. I'm in my 23rd year of teaching and I'm still constantly learning new things about our world right along with my students."

Fun Fact #1 — I am a lifelong baseball card collector. My collection includes cards from all eras of baseball, including tobacco and candy cards dating back to 1911 and classic Topps and Bowman cards from the 1950s.

Fun Fact #2 — I am a kombucha connoisseur.

Fun Fact #3 — I am a film and tv buff and have logged every movie and series I have seen since 1999.

I choose to work at NOVA because the work I do here reverberates throughout our building into our wider community and into our wider world.

Land Acknowledgement

NOVA is located on the ancestral lands of the Steh-Chass band of the Squaxin Island Tribe and Nisqually Indian Tribe, who have long been stewards of the region’s waters, plants, and animals. The southernmost point of the Salish Sea, these lands were—and still are—a place of gathering, trade, and community for many Coast Salish peoples. We recognize that all who are not Salish peoples are visitors here. We commit to join these peoples to share their history, build relationships, increase representation, and restore the living world around us.