Julian Vasquez Heilig - Teachers Make a Difference - Tom Heslop

The speaker reflects on influential teachers in their life, focusing on Tom Heslop, a high school journalism teacher who encouraged them to pursue prestigious universities and develop skills that later helped in their blogging career. This mentorship played a crucial role in their professional growth as a public scholar.

Which platform does the speaker mention as a place where they connect with many influential teachers?

• Facebook

• Instagram

• LinkedIn

• Twitter

What role did Tom Heslop assign to the speaker in the school newspaper?

• Sports Editor

• Assistant Editor

• Editor-in-Chief

• Photo Editor

Which universities did the speaker express interest in attending, with encouragement from Tom Heslop?

• Yale, Princeton, and MIT

• University of Michigan, Stanford, and Harvard

• Columbia, NYU, and UCLA

• Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley

In what year did the speaker start a blog that felt like leading the high school newspaper again?

• 2011

• 2012

• 2010

• 2013

How did the skills learned from Tom Heslop benefit the speaker's career?

• They helped in becoming a public speaker.

• They were instrumental in writing a book.

• They were useful in starting a successful blog.

• They led to a career in teaching.