Jamie Salem joins TMS as the new Upper School math and science teacher.  Jamie has called Telluride home in some form since 1992, but this year marks the first time he has come back to stay on a permanent basis in nearly fifteen years.  After two years in Telluride Middle/High School, he left to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, CA.  He went on to Dartmouth College, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a double-major in Physics and Comparative Religion, and spent time doing post-graduate work in math and astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  

While at Dartmouth Jamie became president of the canoe and kayak club, spending as much of his free time as possible in a whitewater kayak.  After graduation he spent three months exploring the rivers of Ecuador, contracting amoebic dysentery in the process.  A love of traveling and the outdoors has taken him to adventures in six of the seven continents (no trips to Antarctica planned as of yet).

Most recently, Jamie has been living in Boulder, CO, working for the Princeton Review tutoring and teaching SAT, ACT, GRE, and MCAT Physics classes and later serving in an administrative capacity, organizing and staffing classes for the state of CO.  He is thrilled to be back in Telluride and joins TMS eager to share his passion for learning no matter the subject.