Teaching languages is Charlene Mastro’s passion. The Wayne native is now instructing students in the same classrooms that she learned in not long ago at Radnor High School. She is finishing up a school year of teaching Spanish, English to non-native speakers and the last Italian class to be offered at the school. Mastro studied Spanish and Italian at the University of Kansas, and earned Master degrees in the languages at the University of Kansas and at Middlebury College in Vermont, respectively. She earned a certification to teach English as a Second Language at Drexel University. Mastro has…

Brock Tracy teaches health to 1st through 5th graders and physical education to kindergarteners at Wayne Elementary School. This was the first teaching job out of Lock Haven University for the York County native. He has taught the same subjects in the same classroom for seven years — and he still loves it, he said. Tracy's wife Tracy (yes, that's correct) is a guidance counselor at the school. The two have a 13-month-old daughter, Reese. He sees his students once a week and covers topics like nutrition, fitness, injury prevention, body systems, and drugs, alcohol and tobacco. "Not a lot of …

Mike Gavin teaches Religion, Math, Science, English, Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Vocabulary to fourth-graders of St. Katharine of Siena grade school. Gavin, who attended St. Katharine’s for grade school, grew up in Wayne and attended Archbishop John Carroll High School. He went to Wesley College in Delaware for his undergraduate degree and Eastern University for a Masters in Education. He has taught at St. Katharine’s for ten years. Why do you love teaching fourth graders? Gavin said fourth grade is his favorite grade to teach. In general, the kids are genuinely caring — about each other …