Rosa Westerberg, a new staff member at Alvin high school, recently moved from Clovis, New Mexico in search of a job. 

Westerberg taught for 26 years, the last 4 were spent at Clovis high school teaching Spanish 2 and 3. This year she will be teaching Spanish 1 at Alvin. Her recent move to a neighborhood in Friendswood was due to her husband getting a Job around Alvin, which led to her finding the perfect Job at Alvin high school. Growing up she’s always seen herself as a teacher, she started as a bilingual history teacher, until her recent switch to strictly Spanish in 2018.

“I want to share my culture and teach a new language to students,” Westerberg said.

She states that “she’d always known that she wanted to be a Spanish teacher” but was used to teaching as a bilingual teacher in her old schools so the switch to being a Spanish teacher at Clovis and Alvin was a new experience. 

“Alvin pushes their students harder and is a lot more involved with the students,” Westerberg said, “and more rigor in Alvin.”

She thinks students need to be pushed and Alvin does just that; she likes the grading policies and thinks it pushes students to work harder.