New Viking Staff Assembles!

Traveling across continents to continue her education and moving between districts, Akiko Chung is excited for her first semester as Lynbrook’s new school-based therapist.  Chung first came to the United States when she was a high schooler, drawn by the educational system here. She lived independently by herself and adjusted to her a new life of cultural and language barriers. It was difficult ...

In an age of increasing academic and social pressure, Lynbrook students have found themselves seeking ways to deal with stress. This year, Lynbrook introduces a new school-based therapist, Lynne Li, who looks forward to helping students find their own methods of dealing with emotions. Li was initially inspired to work as a general therapist, but after participating in a program that specifically focu...

From playing badminton to advising the new group of freshmen at Lynbrook, Kevin Tran takes on many roles as he joins Lynbrook staff as a Physical Education teacher this year, teaching freshmen P.E. and racquet sports for sophomores through seniors.  Encouraged by his previous P.E. head coach at Pioneer High School, Tran applied for a substitute teaching permit, marking the start of his teaching ca...

From rock climbing to teaching, Lynbrook’s new Academic Communications teacher Theresa Sparks is an active staff member off and on campus.  Sparks always wanted to be a teacher as she enjoyed working with kids in general. Before coming to Lynbrook, she taught at Prospect High School, elementary and middle schools in the Cupertino Union High School District and Pescadero Elementary School. Her motiva...

On a trip to Death Valley, Yoomi Van Horne and her husband brought a piece of metal bent in the shape of a parabola connected by a strip of wood. Visiting remote areas in the desert, Van Horne and her husband applied their knowledge of math to receive cell reception on their phones, using the metal and wood model. “The cell reception bounces off the metal parabola and is concentrated at the fo...

Aspiring to be a teacher at a young age, Tara Grande achieved her dream at National University by getting her teaching credential. This year, Grande joined Lynbrook’s administration team as an assistant principal, working with health and safety facilities and technology interventions and taking the lead on CAASPP testing.  After majoring in mathematics at Santa Clara University, Grande began her si...

Joining Lynbrook’s community of academic communications teachers, Adam Pagura mentors students with special needs, through not only teaching them academic subjects, but also helping them experience the world by being a mentor. “Most of the special needs population have a really hard time making friends,” Pagura said. “Being able to be a friend to them while they experience the world is somethi...

Larry Wenner’s interest in drama started far before he came on to Lynbrook’s campus as a drama teacher. Wenner has been interested in drama since childhood. He has always been the dramatic kid, performing in puppet shows during Christmas and participating in his school plays. As Wenner grew older, his love for drama grew alongside him.  Having started off by teaching drama at Enterprise High School, ...

Zoey Liu found her passion for teaching in her gap year between her undergraduate and graduate studies. She is now expressing her passion about education at Lynbrook by teaching Chinese.  After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English writing from DePauw University in Indiana she hoped to find a job  that she could fully dedicate herself to. As Liu had tutored many students during her time ...

Calvin Wong, Executive Assistant to the Principal, has always been within the FUHSD community. He graduated from Miller Junior High School in summer of 1996 and began his first career as a statistician on the basketball team at Monta Vista High School in the fall of 1999, where he graduated from. In 2014, he became a financial ASB specialist at Monta Vista and worked there until he transferred to L...

Calculus teacher. JV girls tennis team coach. Go player. It may seem strange that one person is able to don all these identities at once. However, Norman Tsai, Lynbrook’s new AP Calculus BC teacher, has taken it upon himself to simultaneously commit to all three activities. Since math has always been one of his strengths, Tsai majored in Statistics in UCLA after graduating from Cupertino High Sch...