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Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Gerry Branner came to California in 1993. With a basketball athletic scholarship, he attended California State University, Long Beach, where he graduated with a B.A. in ethnic studies. He is a former collegiate and professional basketball player. Gerry has lived in the Bay Area since 2000, coached girls’ varsity basketball for 13 seasons at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, and continues to run his personal training company, GMG Fitness For LIFE Inc. He enjoys all sports, long drives, movies, and spending time with his two daughters. Gerry joined the Black Pine Circle School faculty in 2015.
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2015
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Eighth Grade History & Geography Teacher
Keen on floating houses and mutant Basset Hounds
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Seventh Grade Math Teacher, Math Club / Math Team Coach
Played soccer on a Zambian teacher team
Eighth Grade Spanish Teacher
I speak several languages.
Eighth Grade Math Teacher
Loves to travel
Fourth-Sixth Grade Music Teacher
Tamed a mechanical bull in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sixth Grade Science Teacher and Sixth Grade-Level Coordinator
Herded sheep by motorbike in Australia.
Eighth Grade English and Eighth Grade Drama Teacher
Ask me about the time I had a magical and terrifying stand-off with a bison in the Badlands.
Seventh and Eighth Grade Music Teacher, Band Director
Performed music in South Africa during the end of legal apartheid.
Eighth Grade Science Teacher
Apprenticed with a luthier, adept with a paddle
Sixth & Seventh Grade Math Teacher
Seventh Grade History Teacher
Sixth Grade English Teacher
Loves to write or paint
Upper School Assistant Teacher
Fluent Russian speaker
BPC String Orchestra Leader
Creates musical arrangements for fun
Seventh Grade Science Teacher
Kissed a shark once!
Sixth Grade Spanish Teacher
My birthday is April 1st, no joke!
Seventh Grade English Teacher
Obsessed with the Salem witchcraft trials
Sixth Grade History Teacher
Played Gaelic Football as a youth, and won a Minors championship in Ireland
Upper School Mandarin Teacher
Once ate deep-fried silkworms
Seventh Grade Math Assistant, Math Team Coach
