Teacher Interviews

Efua Poku

Mrs. Ostrander

This is Mrs. Ostrander´s first year teaching. Before teaching at St. Mark, she went to college at UMBC and majored in Environmental Studies. In 2022, Mrs. Ostrander came to St. Mark because she thought it would be a very good opportunity to find her role as a teacher She loves coming up with engaging activities for her 5th-grade ELA and 6th-grade social studies, and the amount of support she gets from the students and faculty Mrs O has an obsession with Marvel, which she shares with her husband. Her absolute favorite Marvel character is Captain Marvel.

Mrs Engel

Mrs Engel is the STEM and technology director here at St Mark She is originally from New Jersey, and as a child went to different public schools there. When she moved to Maryland in 2011, she taught 5th and 6th-grade science and math and was the Chair of Technology at Ashburton, a Baltimore City public school. In 2020, she started teaching at St. Mark because she fell in love with the Catonsville community, and the fact that she is in charge of technology, but she is also able to teach. Her favorite part about her job is helping teachers with technology and loves how she, “literally gets paid to play with legos ” She also loves how helpful everyone is, and how talented her students are A fun fact about her is when she was in middle school, she loved making websites to share with others.