Human Development Faculty
Learn to relate to yourself, your community, and your world.
The Human Development faculty will help you become healthy, morally and socially responsible adults. With their guidance, you’ll gain the knowledge, self-awareness, and the empathy you’ll need to live a meaningful life and make positive changes in the world. The Human Development curriculum takes you through topics relevant to you in a sequence that builds on growth throughout your years at Cate.
Human Development Chair
Amy_Gil@cate.org
BA, Westmont College
Amy joins the Human Development Department after teaching history and dual-enrollment college/career planning at Carpinteria High School for the last eleven years. She has worked as a conference presenter and mentor teacher for the nationally recognized “Get Focused, Stay Focused!” program. She has a bachelor’s degree in history and her teaching credential from Westmont College.
She has been connected to the Cate community for some time as her husband, Andy Gil, coaches boys varsity basketball. Together they have two children that attend the Cate Early Learning Center and live in Carpinteria.
Human Development Teacher
Head Girls Varsity Lacrosse Coach
renee_mack@cate.org / 805-684-8409 x120
BS, St. Lawrence University
MA, Boston University
Appointed: 2000
Renee worked at Portsmouth Abbey before coming to Cate to teach AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, and Anatomy & Physiology. In 2003 she became the School’s first full-time athletic trainer. She received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study molecular genetics at Princeton in the summer of 2002. Currently, Renee teaches the Freshman Seminar in the Human Development department.
Renee lives on the Mesa with her husband Pete and their sons Theo and Emmett, and daughter, Reagan.