Meet Our Teachers
Defining Teachable Moments
teachers,” Trisha said. “I often think about my
grandmother… everything was always a teaching
Trisha Power’s office is nestled between shelves moment with her.” Trisha fondly recounts memo-
of books and rows of educational magazines and ries of applying statistical techniques to Australian
in a corner of Keystone’s High School library. The derby races and using arithmetic to measure milk
windows, facing south, allow for abundant light quantities when baking goods with her grand-
to filter through, illuminating her office all year mother. These childhood experiences eventually
round. This is a reflection of her personality, lumi- led her to obtain a Bachelor of Arts and a Teaching
nous, expansive, and always acting with purpose. Diploma from Griffith University. Keen to merge her
Inspired by the leading women in her family, teaching credentials with her interest in academic
Trisha’s fascination with education began in the research, she returned to university and obtained
very place she was born: Australia. Born Patricia a Graduate Diploma in Teacher-Librarianship in
Valentine, she gleams with pride when speaking 1989 from Brisbane College of Advanced Education.
about the influence of the women in her family.
For the next three decades, her educational journey
“I come from a family of really strong women. My took her to Turkey, where she worked as a language
mother, my grandmother, and my aunt were all acquisition teacher, preparing students to study
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