Siri Khalsa
Secondary Math 
What follows is what I would call an minimalist biography. I provided a few details but i wanted to avoid going into go into boring details (although it is pretty long) . If any of this generates any questions don't hesitate to ask me.
I grew up in Ohio as a normal, well somewhat anyway, mid west kid. I attended elementry school at Bell Stone Elementry school in Canton Ohio, then moved to North Canton and attended the middle school and Hoover high school.
After graduation I enrolled at Kent State University and not really sure about what I wanted to really do with my life, started a major in chemistry. The spring of my freshman year I experienced the May 4th shootings on campus. I spent another frustrating year there before coming to the realization that chemistry was not my thing. I decided not to go back to school and before the end of the year I was drafted into the Army.
After training in South Carolina I was lucky to get shipped to Alaska and fell in love with the oppotunities to explore the mountains. I also learend how to ski and fly in my spare time. After serving my two years I went back to Kent with the intent to start where I left off. After a semester I came to the realization I had had enough of Ohio and returned to Alaska.
I explored many fields trying to find out what I wanted to do with my life. I loved learning so I enrolled part time in classes that I was most interested in, particularly philosophy and psycholopgy. I worked as a cook in different resturants and various construction jobs. Then one summer while commercial long line fishing in the Guilf of Alska i realzed I wanted to go into teaching.
At the end of the season I began the process of getting my degree in Education. If I continued trying to get a major in philosophy or psychology it would be hard to get a job, so I looked at other classes I had taken and what I could complete in a reasonable time. It turned out that since I had finished the Calculus courses earlier I could major in mathematics and be done in a reasonable time.
As part of the work in my education classes I found myself at Stellar and immediately ressonated with the philosophy of a school that gave students a voice in their school. I spent as much time as I could working in the classrooms, did my student teaching their and finally graduated.
I subbed in all the secondary schools for three years before I got a full time jopb at Hanshew. The next several years I was bounced around to Clark, the West High, then back to Clark where I taught for eight years.
I was invited to join the Polaris staff the year after the school opened in 1993. I was super excited about the opportunity to teach at Polaris for several reasons. It fit perfectly with my teaching philosophy in that it empowers students in school policy and their individual education. Since have many many outside interests I was also enthusiastic about sharing those through intensive offerings.