California Teacher is honored as first Mean Teacher of the Month

Erick Roldan. Science teacher at Piner High School in Santa Rosa, has been named the first Mean Teacher of the Month by MeanTeachers.Com, website for the best teachers

Erick Roldan, a science teacher at Piner High School in Santa Rosa, CA, has been named the first Mean Teacher of the Month by MeanTeachers.Com - the web site with the email address for the best teachers. The monthly contest is open to all - with the monthly winner being featured on the MeanTeachers.Com home page.

Erick teaches 9th grade science and AP When he isn't being a mean teacher there, he plies his trade as a mentor at San Francisco's Exploratorium. Explaining why he is a mean teacher, Roldan says:

As in life, I believe that students should be "stimulated" by their surroundings... so when my advanced classes get a little too serious, I have a few MEAN stimuli in my repertoire of MEANNESS."

Full details are available at http://www.meanteachers.com/winnerDec2002.htm

MeanTeachers.Com is a new internet site geared to teachers. In addition to e-mail addresses touting one's affiliation, there are also features on combating plagiarism and shopping specials major retailers.

MeanTeachers.Com is the brain child of internet pioneer Laurence A. Canter, and a "mean" west coast teacher.