Jones educator Susan Booth appointed to National Association of Academies of Science

Susan Booth, science teacher at Jones Magnet Middle School, has been appointed by the Virginia Academy of Science Council to the position of delegate representative to the National Association of Academies of Science.

Booth, who also held a position as a science teacher at Kecoughtan High School, boasts over four decades of teaching expertise, exclusively within Hampton City Schools. Furthermore, she assumed roles as a science teacher specialist and contributed to the Science Review Team at the Virginia Department of Education.

Booth says, “I believe in encouraging the development of practices used by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians while mentoring students in their pursuit of those careers through scholarship, meeting scientists, and other opportunities.”