Kevin Quattrin is an SI graduate (Class of 1978) and a fifth generation San Franciscan. He began coaching while in college and continued for the next 26 years. He coached on all levels, including 9 years as Varsity offensive line coach and defensive coordinator and 9 seasons as the Freshman Head Coach. He became the Tech Director/Set Designer/Lighting Designer in the Spring of 1981 and worked on over 100 productions over the next 34 years. In the fall of 1984, he substitute taught for the legendary Vern Gilbert and was hired the following Fall upon Vern's retirement. He has taught most of the courses offered at SI and has written (and continues to edit) the texts for seven of the fifteen classes SI offers, including the PreCalculus, the summer Petition to PreCalculus, Math Analysis, and Calculus courses. As Dept. Chair, he presided over the period of greatest curricular change in the department's history and guided the expansion of the AP program from 3 sections of AB Calculus in 1993 to 3 sections of BC and 2 of AB in the Fall of 2005. Annually, eight of the fourteen senior classes are some level of Calculus.
He received his doctoral degree in Catholic Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of San Francisco in 2007. His dissertation is entitled Fighting the Freeloader Effect: Cooperative Learning, Attitude and Achievement in a Jesuit Secondary Math Classroom. Because of his doctoral work, he has been named to the position of Educational Data Analyst/Institutional Researcher and he is responsible for data gathering and analysis on a school-wide basis. In this capacity he is responsible for the Mission Effectiveness Project, a multi-dimensional analysis of all available data to measure how well each program achieves its goals and how the school as a whole achieves its Mission. Kevin is presently out of coaching and the theatre.
In his spare time, he traces genealogy for many of his colleagues at SI, especially those with San Francisco roots. In 2014, he wrote and published a book about his mother's family, entitled Ghost Family: The Callaghans of Birds Landing. He has since completed on a 600-page book about his grandmother's family, the Silks, as well as a three volume set of the ancestors of his children, and began an expansion of Ghost Family that includes branches of the family in New Zealand, Australia, and Minnesota. He is active in the Pacifica Genealogy Club and delivers an introductory lecture on family research annually to the whole junior class at SI to start them on their immigrant project.
Education:
St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco, 1974-1978
San Francisco State--BA in Math (stats emphasis) and BA in History (early middle ages) 1984
--MA in Secondary Education 1988
University of San Francisco--EdD in Catholic School Administration 2007
Teaching:
Started at SI in 1985
Courses taught: AP Calculus BC, AP Calculus AB, Calculus, PreCalculus, Trig and Analytic Geometry, Honors PreCalculus, PreCalculus Accelerated, Algebra 2, Geometry, Algebra 1z
Dept. Chair (1998-2004, 2020-22)
Textbooks Written: The Readable Calculus, PreCalculus and an Introduction to Calculus, Math Analysis and Trig, and Petition to PreCalculus.
He received his doctoral degree in Catholic Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of San Francisco in 2007. His dissertation is entitled Fighting the Freeloader Effect: Cooperative Learning, Attitude and Achievement in a Jesuit Secondary Math Classroom. Because of his doctoral work, he has been named to the position of Educational Data Analyst/Institutional Researcher and he is responsible for data gathering and analysis on a school-wide basis. In this capacity he is responsible for the Mission Effectiveness Project, a multi-dimensional analysis of all available data to measure how well each program achieves its goals and how the school as a whole achieves its Mission. Kevin is presently out of coaching and the theatre.
In his spare time, he traces genealogy for many of his colleagues at SI, especially those with San Francisco roots. In 2014, he wrote and published a book about his mother's family, entitled Ghost Family: The Callaghans of Birds Landing. He has since completed on a 600-page book about his grandmother's family, the Silks, as well as a three volume set of the ancestors of his children, and began an expansion of Ghost Family that includes branches of the family in New Zealand, Australia, and Minnesota. He is active in the Pacifica Genealogy Club and delivers an introductory lecture on family research annually to the whole junior class at SI to start them on their immigrant project.
Education:
St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco, 1974-1978
San Francisco State--BA in Math (stats emphasis) and BA in History (early middle ages) 1984
--MA in Secondary Education 1988
University of San Francisco--EdD in Catholic School Administration 2007
Teaching:
Started at SI in 1985
Courses taught: AP Calculus BC, AP Calculus AB, Calculus, PreCalculus, Trig and Analytic Geometry, Honors PreCalculus, PreCalculus Accelerated, Algebra 2, Geometry, Algebra 1z
Dept. Chair (1998-2004, 2020-22)
Textbooks Written: The Readable Calculus, PreCalculus and an Introduction to Calculus, Math Analysis and Trig, and Petition to PreCalculus.
Coaching:
Frosh Asst. (1978, 1980), JV Asst. (1979, 1981), Head JV Coach (1985, 1986), Varsity Asst. (1983-85, 1987, 1989, 1995-6, 2000-01), Head Frosh Coach (1990-92, 1997-99, 2002-03).
Theatre:
109 Productions as Tech Director, Set Designer, and/or Lighting Designer (1981-2014).
Misc:
AV coordinator (1989 to 2007), moderator of the SciFi/Fantasy Club and the Python Club, Wrestling Coordinator (1988). He is also a published author.
Other Interests:
Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, carpentry, genealogy, Celtic Mythology, Roman and Celtic history.
Genealogy Publications
Ghost Family: The Callaghans of Birds Landing.
Our Ancestors, Volume 3: The Kadens and the Bensons (2018)
From Beech Hill To San Francisco
Frosh Asst. (1978, 1980), JV Asst. (1979, 1981), Head JV Coach (1985, 1986), Varsity Asst. (1983-85, 1987, 1989, 1995-6, 2000-01), Head Frosh Coach (1990-92, 1997-99, 2002-03).
Theatre:
109 Productions as Tech Director, Set Designer, and/or Lighting Designer (1981-2014).
Misc:
AV coordinator (1989 to 2007), moderator of the SciFi/Fantasy Club and the Python Club, Wrestling Coordinator (1988). He is also a published author.
Other Interests:
Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, carpentry, genealogy, Celtic Mythology, Roman and Celtic history.
Genealogy Publications
Ghost Family: The Callaghans of Birds Landing.
- see https://www.callaghansofbirdslanding.com/
- for the Italian side, see http://www.ourfriulanofamily.com/
Our Ancestors, Volume 3: The Kadens and the Bensons (2018)
From Beech Hill To San Francisco
- see https://www.thesilkfamilyproject.com/
