Biography

Nicole Sadowski joined the STEM team at Trinity Hall in the school’s second year and has enjoyed teaching various levels of math, physics and engineering. She believes that mathematics is a creative endeavor and that all students can enjoy and be successful in math and physics when they act as scientists and mathematicians and learn by doing. As a result, her classrooms are student-center spaces where she and her students build community and collaboration so students can take risks problem-solving while engaging in discussions to construct and deploy models and ideas. She is passionate about Problem-Based Learning in mathematics and Modeling Instruction in physics. This year, she is teaching AP Calculus AB and BC, multivariable calculus, and AP Physics. In addition to her academic classes, Nicole is the STEM team leader and advises students in the Robotics Club. 

 

Nicole joined the faculty after teaching at Saint John Villa Academy all-girls Catholic high school in Staten Island for 13 years. Prior to her teaching career, Nicole received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Lafayette College where she studied the biomechanics of fish locomotion and was then awarded a Whitaker Foundation Scholarship in biomedical engineering to pursue graduate studies and conduct orthopedic biomechanical research in osteoarthritis at Duke University. When not teaching, Nicole loves to cook, read at the beach, and spend time with her husband and two children.