Mallory Rome
Mallory Rome is an Upper School history teacher who started at Rivers in 2020. “As schools tried to reopen in the face of COVID-19, I missed being in the classroom and part of the conversation about educating children in that daunting reality,” says Rome. She started at Rivers in a temporary, part-time role. “I loved teaching here so much I decided to stay in a full-time role,” she says.
Rome teaches Grade 10 U.S. history and AP U.S. history and the advanced Grade 11 course “U.S. and the World.” She is also the Upper School GSA faculty advisor and is serving on the Schedule Redesign Committee this year.
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What does Excellence with Humanity look like in your work with students?
History is challenging. Students read, write, think, reason, analyze, argue. It’s a lot of brain work! I spend a lot of time encouraging and hoping to excite students to tackle skills and learning that are hard, while trying to find ways to engage them in the conundrums of the past. I love history, and I want them to see how important the past is—while always remembering that they have such busy lives (and several other teachers who love their subjects, too!).
What’s your favorite topic to teach?
This is hard. There are very few topics I don’t love to teach! Our new(ish) Grade 11 course, “U.S. and the World,” which looks at U.S. and world history since 1945, has a special place in my heart because part of our goal is to discuss recent history in the context of the present. We make a lot of space for current events and for drawing the connections between the recent past and the world our students inhabit.
In three words, what makes Rivers special?
Shared, impassioned curiosity.
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