What is it like to be both an EastLake Alum and a current teacher at EastLake High School?  Let’s hear straight from Bryan Fischbein:

“I’ve been a part of the EastLake community for a long time! I went to EastLake Elementary as a kid, went to Rancho del Rey Middle because EastLake Middle hadn’t been built yet, and graduated from EastLake High in 2006. In 2013 I started on my path towards becoming a teacher, and though I never dreamed I’d wind up back at EastLake High as a teacher, it happened in 2015. I appreciate the last six years I’ve had as a teacher and baseball coach in this community the most!

I’ll be honest, teaching is my job and on most days, it feels like my job. I don’t really think about the fact that I’m at my own high school on a day-to-day basis, instead focusing on the important but mundane details of helping craft 176 young minds. However, there are also moments where I realize that no other teaching job in the world could possibly mean as much to me. To borrow a line from the inimitable Jauhn Hinkle, “this is MY school.” Those are MY neighbors doing the homework I assign, the siblings of MY friends working on my quizzes, MY baseball team taking the field and wearing the same E I wore on my cap not so long ago. I have a unique sense of ownership over the work I do now, and it drives not only me to give my very best, but also to make sure my students know that this isn’t just any community they are a part of, but THEIR’S; OUR’S. I’ve been a part of this community for a long time because it’s a community worth being a part of, and the best part of my job is that I get to help our students understand their role in continuing that legacy for generations to come.”