Gifted and Talented Teacher
Email:
JWainma@dpsk12.net
Department(s):
Gifted & Talented
Jessica Wainman has been teaching at Izzi B for 11 years and for 25 years in many roles, and places. She has taught dual immersion Spanish, Spanish as a foreign language, was a literacy and math acceleration teacher, a multilingual learner teacher, and has taught English in South Korea. Jessica loves teaching and learning new ways of doing her job better! Jessica is currently the Gifted and Talented Specialist and Senior Team Lead, where she gets to work with students in all classrooms and with the best teachers on the planet! She is a life-long learner who prioritizes equity work in schools. Jessica holds a Master’s Degree in Elementary Literacy and is Nationally Board Certified. In addition, she holds a Gifted and Talented Certificate from Denver Public Schools. She is from San Diego but has lived here for the last 17 years. Jessica has two children who are Izzi B graduates: Xóchitl in 10th grade at Northfield, where her husband, Tomás, teaches and Atticus, in his second year at CU Boulder studying Aerospace Engineering.