Michael A. Pope
- Current Position
- Eighth-grade science teacher for the Department of Defense Education Activity Dependent Schools (DoDEA) at Zama American Middle School
- Board Term
- October 2022 - September 2026
- Board Category
- Eighth-Grade Teacher
- Representative Board Activities
- Member — Committee on Standards, Design, and Methodology
- Education
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Doctoral Studies - American College of Education - STEM Curriculum and Instruction
M.S. Brenau University – Middle School Education
Post-Bachelor Work, Georgia State University – Second Language Acquisition/Curriculum
B.S. Georgia State University – Middle School Education
Pope is an eighth-grade science teacher for the Department of Defense Education Activity Dependent Schools (DoDEA). Since 2006, Pope has taught at Zama American Middle School at Camp Zama in Japan, where he also served as the gifted education and AVID coordinator and Junior Science and Humanities Symposium sponsor for middle and high school student researchers. Pope’s distinguished teaching career includes being named a 2022 National Teacher Hall of Fame finalist, the 2021 Pacific East District Teacher of the Year, a 2020 Top 50 finalist for the Varkey Foundation’s Global Teacher Prize, a 2001 Fulbright Memorial Fund and 2018 Fulbright Global Teacher Fellow, and a two-time DoDEA state-level finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching as an awardee in 2017. He formerly served as a teacher and paraprofessional for the DeKalb County Board of Education in Georgia where he received the 2002 Georgia Middle School Teacher of Promise Award.