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Dee Mecham
Middle School Math Teacher (6-8) & Coding Teacher (K-5)
Dee is thrilled to join TCPS teaching middle school math and lower school coding. Dee is a proud math nerd with a passion for understanding the quantitative aspects of the natural world as well as human and social behaviors that are foundational to how we experience the infinite beauty and love that surround us all.
Dee started his college studies in the Air Force ROTC as an electrical engineering major at Boston University before spending three years in South Korea becoming a kimchi connoisseur and king of karaoke (노래방). Dee completed a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Asian Studies at the University of Utah, and then did graduate studies at the University of Hawai’i as a Korea Foundation scholar earning an M.A. in Economics. Among other things, while in Hawaii, Dee also returned to the basketball court where he first started coaching in 1984, which was the beginning of discovering the teacher within.
In 2005, he came to San Diego to join the faculty of The Bishop’s School where he taught a range of economics courses adapting to the interests and skills of his students. He was passionate about teaching economics because of the opportunity that it afforded his students to have a cross-curricular learning experience pulling together all that they had learned in their math, history, science, literature and art classes (such as exploring the concepts of game theory in the writings of Shakespeare, creating artistic visual representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional cost and production functions, or creating songs about monetary and fiscal policy). With a commitment to student autonomy, Dee’s personalized support for his students has helped countless students begin to explore the overlapping areas of their “personal Venn diagram” of skills and interests from their educational experiences to discover their uniqueness through the connectedness of their various passions.
Dee is also excited to teach coding at TCPS! The logic of coding has been one of his most reliable tools for learning and understanding the world. Understanding anything new is a process of decoding. Moreover, coding is a mindset for learning, problem-solving, and maximizing the value of each day.
Whether camping, going to Disneyland, watching a Padres game, or seeing a Pearl Jam concert, Dee always enjoys things most when it is time he spends with his family - his wife Liz, their son Quinn, and their two French bulldogs, Johnny Utah and Dani California.