(Mrs. Carol Scalo currently teaches Grades 6,7,8  Science and Science Lab along with Homeroom Grade 7, and Grade 7 Religion, Social Studies, Spelling)

"The Lynch School of Education at Boston College has, as part of its mission, "to enhance the human condition, to expand the human imagination, and to make the world more just." What could be more fitting than to ask seniors to nominate teachers and counselors who have exemplified the spirit of that mission?

On behalf behalf of the Undergratuate Senate, I am pleased to inform you that Bryan Ramos has nominated Mrs. Carol Scalo for our Exemplary Teacher Award. Congratulations for inspiring Bryan and countless others!"

-Robyn Antonucci, LSOE Senate Chairperson

Mrs. Carol Scalo

Nominated by Bryan Ramos

Science, St. Catherine of Siena School, Cedar Grove, NJ

"Mrs. Carol Scalo was more than a teacher; she was a second mother, a mentor, a friend. Learning in Mrs. Scalo's classroom was not only a daily activity but an experience. She educated not only because that was her job but because she genuinely cared for her students. She exceeded typical expectations not because she felt she needed to but rather it was the type of woman she is.

Growing up in the projects of Paterson, NJ was not the easiest upbringing for Carol but that did not stop her from becoming the best she could. While her father had a low income job, her mother suffered from persistent epileptic seizures. A common day for Carol was coming home from school to find her mother on the floor convulsing. Mrs. Scalo would leave her home in the projects and go to school working for a better life. Coming from this upbringing did not hold Carol back but rather fired her struggle for a better life. She graduated high school as valedictorian of her class and received a scholarship for college. She graduated at the top of her class with suma distinction. From her tough upbringing she excelled in academics for a better life. I believe it was these experiences that helped shape what she believed education should be and how her classroom was going to be taught.

Coming into seventh grade, I was often told that Mrs. Scalo was the hardest teacher in the entire grammar school. I quickly realized that it was not that she was the hardest but rather she expected the most out of her students. Her daily academic and life lessons not only educated but help form her students into a more intellectual and mature adolescent. Although her specialty was in the sciences, she expected and gave just as much in the other major subjects that she taught.

Before I had the pleasure of attending her class, my sister had her for a teacher. My sister always tells our family that the passion that Mrs. Scalo instilled in her pushed her to pursue nursing school. In two years, my two little sisters have the opportunity to experience Mrs. Scalo's classroom. I nominate Mrs. Scalo not only for the teacher she was but for the person and student she has helped made me to become today. She is the epitome of what it means to love teaching, to have your enthusiasm be infectious and to go above and beyond for your students."