EdCircuit Staff

Steve Elizondo is an educator from San Diego, California. He has worked with kids for over 20 years. Starting out working in group homes, and later teaching students from diverse backgrounds helped Steve to develop the empathy and relationship-building skills necessary to reach all students.

Moving to High Tech High in 2005, Steve immersed himself in project-based learning as a Humanities teacher. Six years later, Steve became the director of one of the High Tech High Schools and was responsible for guiding the school in its mission of providing an engaging 21st-century education to all students.

Steve is currently the principal of Golden Hill K-8, a dual immersion public school in the San Diego Unified School District, committed to social/emotional learning, and developing students who are proficient in both English and Spanish. Steve was one of the keynote speakers at the 2nd Annual STEAM Barcelona conference in April 2016.