Christina L. Gutierrez
Alexandria City Public Schools
Mrs. Gutierrez is a content reading specialist at T.C. Williams High School. She began her teaching career in 1967 as a history teacher at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif., where she remained for two years. From 1969 to 1970, she took time off from teaching to pursue a graduate degree. In 1970, Mrs. Gutierrez returned to teaching and worked as a reading specialist and history teacher at University Heights Middle School in Riverside, Calif. During her two-year tenure there, she participated in the first federally-funded university project in the country which studied the incorporation of reading instruction methods into the content curriculum in the secondary school system. In 1972, Mrs. Gutierrez joined the Alexandria City Public School system as a reading specialist at John Adams Middle School. In 1973, she took a break from teaching to raise a family. From 1974 to 1977, Mrs. Gutierrez returned to California as a reading specialist at Andrew Jackson Opportunity School in Los Angeles, Calif., before returning to the Alexandria City Public School system. In 1977, she was the reading specialist at T.C. Williams for two years and then moved to Hammond Junior High School as a content reading specialist where she remained for eight years. In 1987, Mrs. Gutierrez rejoined the faculty at T.C. Williams and assumed her current position. She received a B.A. degree in U.S. history from the University of California in Santa Barbara, Calif., and an M.A. degree in education with an emphasis in U.S. history and reading from the University of California in Riverside, Calif.