Mrs. Laurie Dvornak

Hello!! My name is Laurie Dvornak and I will be teaching 6th Math and 7-8th Science!

This will be my 18th year at IHM and both my children are graduates of IHM and SHDHS! Prior to
that, my family and I had the opportunity to live overseas in the Middle East. I designed educational
programs for the National Aquarium in Kuwait and trained their teachers to work with the public. I
also taught Math Enrichment at the Jeddah Prep and Grammar School, in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. It
was a wonderful experience to live abroad and to learn other teaching strategies. I started my
teaching in a K-12 School in coastal Oregon teaching all the secondary sciences as well as 7th /8th
grade math and Algebra.

My college years were spent in WA at Whitman College, where I earned a BA in Biology and Oregon
State University for a BS in Zoology, Science Education and a MS from the Dept. of Math-Science
Education. My family is from eastern Washington State. Go Seahawks! My husband teaches
Science at Blessed Sacrament and we have two children, one in medicine and the other in higher
education. We just became grandparents this year and are enjoying that a lot!

I love teaching-it is truly a calling.  Science is so much fun to share with children, and they have so
many questions about the world around them and how it works. Math is often the language of
science. Working with children keeps you young and open to the world and all its many changing
wonders.