About

Juliana Liebke – Middle School History-Social Science teacher

Juliana Liebke is the TK-12 History-Social Science Curriculum Specialist for San Diego Unified School District, is a teacher ambassador with Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI), and is faculty at San Diego State University (SDSU) as a student teacher supervisor. Juliana Liebke holds a M.A. in Educational Technology/Instructional Design as well as a B.A. in Classics with an emphasis on Classical Humanities from SDSU and ancient history at the University of Bristol, England, where she did her junior year abroad through the SDSU study abroad program. She completed her Multiple and Single Subject teaching credentials in 2001 from National University and was a middle school history-social science, art, and English language arts teacher for grades 6-8 for 14 years at Gompers, Pacific Beach Middle School, and Knox Middle School. In 2014, she completed her Administrative Credential through the department of Educational Leadership at SDSU. Her academic interests include TPCK (technological pedagogical content knowledge) and related topics in antiquity and the Middle Ages including madness in the Greek world, seafaring in the Mediterranean, and military strategies of both Alexander the Great and Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Yarmuk. Ms. Liebke is fascinated with interdisciplinary projects and believes that facilitating relationship-building between teachers and students is the most important factor in student learning. She also loves hiking, traveling, and being a mom.

Biography

Raised in L.A. as Juliana Michele Rein, Juliana moved to San Diego for university straight out of high school. She majored in Classics with an emphasis in Classical Humanities at San Diego State University. In her senior year, she studied at the University of Bristol, England. While abroad, Juliana tried to blend into British culture and travel, toured around Great Britain, took a ski trip to Austria, and back packed through Italy, Greece, and Turkey.

The return to San Diego was short-lived. After catching the travel bug, Juliana decided it was time to see her own country. This entailed taking an eight week camping tour through the national parks of the western U.S. and Canada. After a short stint working in her hometown of L.A., she continued the journey by spending five weeks in New Zealand.

Juliana came home and completed her proudest achievement, a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Science in May 1997. She celebrated this achievement by quitting food service and taking a job as a tour leader. For two summer seasons she escorted foreign vacationers around our beautiful national parks spending the better part of two seasons living out of a van. During the winter season she drove the same vans for a ground transportation company in Vail, Co where she learned U.S history, geology, and how to downhill ski from Canadian friends.

Juliana returned to San Diego in 1999 to complete her teaching credential at National University. Receiving both a multiple subject and a single subject credential for social science, she began her career in Fall 2001 teaching 7th and 8th grade English at Samuel Gompers Secondary School. After two years, she accepted a position teaching social studies at Pacific Beach Middle School where she’s been ever since. Juliana returned to her alma mater, San Diego State University, where she completed her Master of Arts in Educational Technology in 2009. She is now embarking in a credential in Administration from SDSU, which will be completed in December 2014.

In July 2005 she married Paul Liebke, and racked up a travel list frequenting Utah, honeymooning in Thailand, and vacationing in Jamaica and Spain. Reading, skiing, hiking, and river rafting remain her favorite past times. They live with their precious son and two cats, Charley and Spooky.