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GHSCHOL ATLIFE SP EDJohn Inserra remembers the exact moment he decidedto become a teacher.For more than a decade, he had worked in the biotech field,rising as high as CEO. But despite a successful career, hefelt that something was missing. “I just reached a pointwhere I wanted to give back in some way,” he says. So, onThanksgiving Day 2005, Inserra decided to make a change.“I wanted to help young people,” he says, “and teachingseemed like a great way to do that.”Today, Inserra is the 10th-grade business and technologyteacher at City High Charter School (City High) in downtownPittsburgh. Located in the Clark Building, in the heart of thecity’s Cultural District, City High is a model of innovationthat’s paving new pathways in education – and Robert MorrisUniversity is playing a big part in its success.Inserra is one of several City High teachers that graduated fromRMU’s Business, Computer and Information Technology (BCIT)certification program, offered by the School of Education andSocial Sciences (SESS). SESS is helping people who wish tochange careers and pursue teaching by offering them flexiblescheduling and different opportunities once they completetheir certification. The school’s success has a lot to do with thenumber of second-career students they attract. Seventy percentof RMU students preparing to become secondary teachers arepost-baccalaureate students, like Inserra, who come to RMUfor their teacher certification.“The number of former SESS students now working at CityHigh is just another example of our school’s growing impacton the region,” says John E. Graham, Ed.D., SESS dean andprofessor of education. “Our certification programs here atR O B E R T M O R R I S U N I V E R S I T Y F O U N D AT I O N S • 1 1
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