Cheri Block Sabraw has been teaching writing, journalism, and literary analysis since 1972. She anchored the Mission San Jose High School junior honors program from 1985-1998. Graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Pacific, she was the 1972 commencement speaker for the School of Education.
Mrs. Sabraw holds a Life Credential in English from the State of California and finished her English major at San Jose State University and the University of California, Berkeley. As a teacher at Mission San Jose High School, she received commendations and awards for Excellence in the Classroom from Stanford University, the University of Chicago, San Jose State University, and the University of California. She was Mission San Jose High School’s Teacher of the Year in 1992.
Her students continue to be accepted at many outstanding universities including UC Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Duke, University of Chicago, M.I.T., Cal Tech, Rice, Princeton, Brown, University of Michigan, Cornell, St. John’s College, Dartmouth, USCD and many others.
Mrs. Sabraw has been admitted to Stanford University and will pursue a Master of Liberal Arts in the Fall of 2009.
You can read her writing at www.CheriBlockSabraw.com
