Alex Kirby
STEM Teacher/Penn Fellow
Pomona College, BS
email: alex.kirby[at]sonomaacademy.org
Alex graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Pomona College, where she also worked as a teaching assistant in Pomona’s Human Brain Lab. She teaches in our STEM department as one of our inaugural Penn Fellows.
In Spring 2024, Sonoma Academy was accepted into the prestigious University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR) program. This partnership between the Penn GSE and a consortium of the nation’s leading boarding and day schools allows aspiring, early-career teachers to earn their master’s degree in education while also completing a two-year fellowship at a highly regarded independent school. We are joining a select group of schools from across the country in the ISTR program — and only the second school west of the Mississippi River in the consortium.
Pomona College, BS
email: alex.kirby[at]sonomaacademy.org
Alex graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Pomona College, where she also worked as a teaching assistant in Pomona’s Human Brain Lab. She teaches in our STEM department as one of our inaugural Penn Fellows.
In Spring 2024, Sonoma Academy was accepted into the prestigious University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) Independent School Teaching Residency (ISTR) program. This partnership between the Penn GSE and a consortium of the nation’s leading boarding and day schools allows aspiring, early-career teachers to earn their master’s degree in education while also completing a two-year fellowship at a highly regarded independent school. We are joining a select group of schools from across the country in the ISTR program — and only the second school west of the Mississippi River in the consortium.
Sonoma Academy Is...
...the only private, independent, college preparatory high school in Sonoma County. On our beautiful campus nestled at the base of Taylor Mountain in Southeastern Santa Rosa, our students are able to explore their interests and passions in a rigorous and inspiring environment that develops a lifelong love of learning and prepares them for college and beyond.
Sonoma Academy admits students of any race, color, religion, ethnicity or national origin, citizenship, gender or gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, or disability, to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. The school does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, ethnicity or national origin, citizenship, gender or gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, or disability in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and tuition assistance programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
