JAMIE SAMULAK

Students who enter Jamie Samulak’s classroom step into a warm and loving environment where history comes alive. Through the use of simulations, research projects, skits, songs, many other hands on activities, and, of course, a challenging curriculum, students dive into the history of their city, state, and country.

Mrs. Samulak earned her bachelor’s degree in 2000 at Cleveland State University. Mrs. Samulak gained teaching experience through long-term substituting and tutoring positions before joining the Birchwood faculty in 2005 as a Math teacher. After successfully teaching math for three years, she took a year of maternity leave after giving birth to her second son, Jonathan, in 2008. She returned to Birchwood in 2009 eager to teach Social Studies. 

As a wife and mother of two, her life experiences bring much to the classroom.  Her extensive travels to many areas of the United States include cross-country trips to California during which she explored many of the national parks throughout the western and central areas of the country. In addition, she has had the opportunity to visit parts of Mexico, Canada, Europe, Iceland, and Malaysia, along with a month long stay in Taiwan. All of these rich and varied experiences have broadened Mrs. Samulak’s world outlook, making her classes interesting and relevant to the third and fourth grade students whom she loves to teach.