Patricia Tuttle-Newby
Arlington County Public Schools
Mrs. Tuttle-Newby is a seventh grade social studies teacher at Gunston Middle School. She began her teaching career in 1988 with The Close Up Foundation, engaging high school students from throughout the country in a week-long civic education program in Washington, D.C. Three years later, Mrs. Tuttle-Newby moved north where she taught Introduction to Sociology and Contemporary American Problems at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wis., where she remained until 1992. From 1992 to 1995, she taught grades 9-12 social studies in a federally funded dropout prevention program at William Penn High School in New Castle, Del. Mrs. Tuttle-Newby assumed her present position in 1995. She received a bachelor of arts degree in history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and a master of arts degree in teaching social studies from Brown University in Providence, R.I.