BRENT S. WILLIS
Mr. Willis is in his twelfth year as a secondary school educator and in his sixth year at Esperanza High School. Prior to becoming an Aztec, Mr. Willis taught College Prep Government and Economics at Warren High School in Downey, and he began his teaching career as a Modern American and World History teacher at John H. Glenn High School in Norwalk. Mr. Willis was also the Men's Varsity Basketball Coach at both schools, and he coached the Men's Junior Varsity basketball team at Esperanza in 2012 and 2013.
Mr. Willis prides himself in providing a rigorous, engaging, and interactive course that challenges his students to examine history and how it relates to them through various scopes of analysis. Since coming to Esperanza, his classes have been consistently successful on the California State Standards Exam in American History, achieving pass rates as high as 80% every year. Mr. Willis also teaches Advanced Placement Microeconomics and Macroeconomics at Esperanza, where his students have achieved 100%, 98%, and 96% pass rates consistently on the Advanced Placement exams in those subjects. In 2003, Mr. Willis earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the field of Political Science and is a graduate of St. Paul High School (1999). |