Kevin Quattrin, EdD
Add text
  • Home
    • Myers-Briggs Personality Types
    • Valuable Links
    • Interesting Books
    • Taking Notes for Yourself
    • Summary Sheet Rubrics
    • Test Anxiety
    • Dr Q's MCQ Tips
  • AP Calculus BC
    • BC Calc Tests
    • BC Calculus Syllabus
    • BC Calculus Objectives
    • BC Calculus Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
  • The Readable Calculus (BC version)
    • Readable Calculus Screen Casts (BC Version)
    • The Readable Calculus (BC version) Odd Solutions
  • AP Calculus AB
    • AP Calculus AB Tests
    • AP Calculus AB Course Syllabus
    • AP Calculus AB Objectives
    • AP Calculus AB Enduring Understandings
  • Calculus (non-AP)
    • Calculus (Non-AP) Tests
    • Calculus Course Syllabus
    • Calculus Objectives
    • Calculus (AB and non-AP) Enduring Understandings
  • The Readable Calculus (AB and Non-AP version)
    • Readable Calculus Screen Casts (Non-AP Version)
    • The Readable Calculus (Non-AP version) Odd Solutions
  • PreCalculus (Seniors)
    • PreCalc (Sr) Tests
    • PreCalc (Sr) Syllabus
    • PreCalc (Sr) Objectives
  • Honors PreCalculus
    • Honors PreCalc Tests
    • Honors PreCalculus Syllabus
    • Honors PreCalc Objectives
    • Honors PreCalc Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
  • PreCalculus Accelerated
    • PreCalc Acc Tests
    • PreCalculus Acc Syllabus
    • PreCalc Acc Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions
  • The PreCalculus Text
    • The PreCalculus Text Screencasts
    • The PreCalculus Text -- Odd Solutions
  • Dr. Quattrin's Biography
  • PSAT & SAT Prep
    • Heart of Algebra Screen Casts
    • Problem Solving and Data Analysis Screen Casts
    • Passport to Advanced Math Screen Casts
    • Additional Topics in Math Screen Casts
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. 

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.

Picture
 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.
  • see https://www.callaghansofbirdslanding.com/
Our Ancestors, Volume 1:  The Quattrins and the Callaghans (revised 2022)
  • for the Italian side, see http://www.ourfriulanofamily.com/
Our Ancestors, Volume 2: The Watters and the Neffs (2019)
Our Ancestors, Volume 3:  The Kadens and the Bensons (2018)
From Beech Hill To San Francisco
  • see  https://www.thesilkfamilyproject.com/

Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly