Dr. Cecchine has worked in many different classrooms, grade 1 to 12. She has been working with elementary education for the last 10 years and worked at Bob Forinash Community Day School prior, with grades 7-12. She has built a unique approach to working with students from diverse and inequitable backgrounds. Her pedagogy includes restorative justice approaches to discipline and conflict resolution. Through the humanization of our students, teachers are able to better open up their minds to allow teaching to occur. Dr. Terri Cecchine currently serves as a K-3 Literacy Specialist in Lompoc California, at La Honda STEAM Academy.
Dr. Cecchine is a teacher mentor and works to help teachers to understand and empathize with students needs to not only reach them where they are but still hold high expectations and rigor in the classroom. Dr. Cecchine also has coached wrestling for 14 years and works with youth in the athletic capacity as well to help them understand and navigate their environments. She received her BA from UC Santa Barbara, her M.A. from the University of San Francisco, her 2nd M.A. from UCSB along with her Ph.D. in 2019. Her educational background includes Educational Leadership as well as a Ph.D. focus on Access and Equity. Her dissertation focused on female wrestlers across the state of California and how wrestling develops character, voice and agency amongst young females. She has created a scholarship foundation titled, Feminism Wrestling Equality that serves female wrestlers with $500 scholarships 3 times a year.