"Él que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho."
-Don Quijote de la Mancha
A little bit about me...officially, I am Mr. Cameron Stephen but my students call me Profe and some call me Coach, many just combine the two to Coach Profe. I have been an educator since 2000. Currently, I am a district level curriculum coach for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD in Cypress, Texas in the suburbs of Houston. Before that, I taught at Cy-Fair High School in my current district from 2000-2022 and was the department chair of Foreign Languages from 2009-2022. I taught Pre-AP Spanish and AP Spanish Language since his first day in the classroom at Cy-Fair. I was responsible for re-starting the Native Speakers program at our school in 2001 and started the AP Spanish Literature program in 2002. Interestingly enough, when I started at Cy-Fair, only 3 students had participated in the AP Spanish Language exam. Now, our school regularly has more than 70 students that participate in AP Spanish Language & Culture and more than 20 that participate in AP Spanish Literature & Culture on a yearly basis. From 2018-2021, I was our school's Assistant Aquatics Coach (Swimming, Diving, and Water Polo), which is when the students started calling me Coach Profe because I wore both hats.
Originally, I am a product of the AP Spanish program at Kearns High School in Salt Lake City, Utah where I took Spanish every year in high school and I took the AP Spanish Language exam in 1993. My passion for teaching was born while serving a mission for my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to the Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1996. Upon returning home, I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Utah in 2000. Later, I completed a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Houston in 2009.
In addition to my work at Cy-Fair High School, I have served as a reader for the AP Spanish Literature exam since 2005, a Table Leader since 2009, as a Question Leader since 2015, and as an Exam Leader in 2020. In 2021, I begin a new journey as an AP Reader by grading the AP Spanish Language & Culture exam. I have been a College Board Consultant since 2011, conducting workshops and summer institutes all over the country (literally from the east to the west coast) and virtually online. From 2012-2019, I was a member of the College Board’s Test Development Committee for AP Spanish Literature & Culture serving as the high school co-chair of the committee from 2015-2019. In 2016, I was very blessed to receive the prestigious Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities award from Texas Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Professional Affiliations:
Originally, I am a product of the AP Spanish program at Kearns High School in Salt Lake City, Utah where I took Spanish every year in high school and I took the AP Spanish Language exam in 1993. My passion for teaching was born while serving a mission for my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to the Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1996. Upon returning home, I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Utah in 2000. Later, I completed a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Houston in 2009.
In addition to my work at Cy-Fair High School, I have served as a reader for the AP Spanish Literature exam since 2005, a Table Leader since 2009, as a Question Leader since 2015, and as an Exam Leader in 2020. In 2021, I begin a new journey as an AP Reader by grading the AP Spanish Language & Culture exam. I have been a College Board Consultant since 2011, conducting workshops and summer institutes all over the country (literally from the east to the west coast) and virtually online. From 2012-2019, I was a member of the College Board’s Test Development Committee for AP Spanish Literature & Culture serving as the high school co-chair of the committee from 2015-2019. In 2016, I was very blessed to receive the prestigious Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities award from Texas Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Publications:
- Recursos didácticos para la enseñanza de la primera crónica europea de Texas: La relación por Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Houston, 2009. (Master's Thesis available through the Library of Congress and the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston)
- Las sociedades en contacto: perspectivas del imperialismo. New York: The College Board, 2012. (Professional Development Curriculum Module)
- AP Spanish Language & Culture: Changes in the Natural Environment. New York, The College Board, 2017. (Service Learning Curriculum Module)
- AP Spanish Literature & Culture Course & Exam Description. New York, The College Board, 2019.
Professional Affiliations:
- American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
- American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- SWCOLT (South West Conference on Language Teaching)
- SCOLT (Southern Conference on Language Teaching)
- Texas Foreign Language Association
- Texas State Teachers Association
- National Eagle Scouts Association
Some Fun Facts:
Some of my favorites:
Some of my Bucket List items:
- I am an Eagle Scout.
- In high school, I was on the varsity swim team and water polo team. I was captain of both teams my senior year.
- I lettered in swimming, water polo, and academics.
- I have volunteered in many capacities (e.g. baseball, basketball coach and Assistant Scoutmaster). I serve frequently with my church doing numerous projects around our community. Currently I am the 1st counselor in our Sunday School Presidency.
- I have missed fewer than 10 Cy-Fair football games since 2001.
- Currently reading: Zorro: Una novela by Isabel Allende
Some of my favorites:
- TV shows: America's Got Talent, Big Bang Theory
- Movies: The Sandlot, Top Gun, Lion King, Star Wars (yep! everyone of them...), Man of La Mancha, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Karate Kid, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, and all the MCU movies.
- Sweets: fried golden rings of joy (plain glazed donuts), peanut butter M&Ms, and Diet Mountain Dew.
- Vacation spots: any beach (preferred beaches are in the Dominican Republic, Florida, and California...the Great Salt Lake or Galveston do not count...), Utah, Disney (land or World mattereth not), and Washington DC
- Musicians: Imagine Dragons, Juan Luis Guerra, Maná, Linkin Park, Green Day, Will Smith, Beach Boys
- Teams: Utah Utes (football and basketball), Astros, Texans, and Utah Jazz
- Athletes: Donovan Mitchell, Michael Jordan, Lance Berkman, John Stockton/Karl Malone, and JJ Watt
Some of my Bucket List items:
- Learn to play guitar
- Learn to fly, earn pilot's license
- Visit Spain, again, but with my family, and Scotland
- Visit every MLB stadium (currently I have been to 23)
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