Economics teacher Samuel Lepler receives California Teacher of the Year award from CASET

Economics teacher Samuel Lepler was presented with his Teacher of the Year Award from the California Association of School Economics Teachers (CASET) during the annual CASET conference in San Francisco last Friday. “It’s great. It’s an honor. It’s nice to be able to get credit for things that other people do, because I don’t take the tests, but it’s fun and it feels nice,” Lepler said.

Anika Rajamani

Economics teacher Samuel Lepler was presented with his Teacher of the Year Award from the California Association of School Economics Teachers (CASET) during the annual CASET conference in San Francisco last Friday. “It’s great. It’s an honor. It’s nice to be able to get credit for things that other people do, because I don’t take the tests, but it’s fun and it feels nice,” Lepler said.

by Anika Rajamani, Reporter

Economics teacher Samuel Lepler received the Teacher of the Year award from the California Association of School Economics Teachers (CASET) last Friday.

The award was presented to Lepler during the annual CASET conference in San Francisco. CASET is an organization which promotes economics education in schools across the U.S. The organization chooses a teacher based off efforts to promote economics education and the performance of their students on the AP exams.

In 2013, Lepler had the most students in the world earn perfect scores on an Advanced Placement (AP) exam. Ten of his students received perfect scores on the AP Microeconomics exam, and one student also received a second perfect score on the AP Macroeconomics exam. Lepler is also recognized for his involvement in the community of economics education in California.

“It’s great. It’s an honor. It’s nice to be able to get credit for things that other people do, because I don’t take the tests, but it’s fun and it feels nice,” Lepler said.  

Lepler and history and social science teacher Damon Halback presented at the conference about MobLab, an interactive online platform where students can play against each other and learn about basic concepts in economics. While Halback and Upper School Head Butch Keller were notified about Lepler’s award in June, Lepler was not told until the conference last Friday.

“They told us several months ago that he was getting the award. We presented at the conference, and he thought we were there just to present, but in fact he was there to get the award as well,” Halback said. “It was a surprise for him, and it was really fun.”