KAIYA CIHO

Kaiya believes learning should be a participatory process.  She uses encouragement and confidence-building to help students get to the point where they understand enough that the process becomes fun.  She does not simply explain everything and hope a student will remember it all; instead, she gets the student to talk through what he or she knows and then fills in the gaps until the student can teach it back to her.  Kaiya’s long-term goal is a career in education policy and, to that end, plans to pursue degrees in teaching and law.

Interests and hobbies: social justice, mock trial, Model UN, volunteering, dogs and cats, bicycling and unicycling

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology, BS in History, Technology and Society, with minors in Math, Public Policy, and Urban Studies (expected May 2026)
• Georgia Tech/Georgia State Joint Program, MA in Teaching with focus in Mathematics (expected May 2027)