Biography

Nicole Sadowski joined Trinity Hall during its second year and has since enjoyed teaching a range of courses in math, physics, and engineering. She believes mathematics and physics are creative and collaborative pursuits, and so designs her student-centered classrooms to foster curiosity, risk-taking, and problem-solving. With a focus on Problem-Based Learning in math and Modeling Instruction in physics, she encourages students to think and act like scientists and mathematicians. This year, she is teaching AP Calculus AB and BC, as well as AP Physics, and also advises the school’s Robotics team, the Monarch Mechanics.

Before coming to Trinity Hall, Nicole taught for 13 years at Saint John Villa Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Staten Island. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lafayette College, where she researched fish biomechanics, and was awarded a Whitaker Foundation Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in biomedical engineering at Duke University, focusing on orthopedic biomechanics and osteoarthritis. Outside the classroom, Nicole enjoys cooking, reading, and spending time with her husband and two children.