Teacher Camille Tedeschi Spends Summer Abroad
September 7, 2023
Camille Tedeschi loves to travel. The veteran Huntington High School social studies teacher have visited dozens of countries on every continent but one. This past summer she led an EF Tours gap year program in Europe for five weeks with college aged students.
“We studied and traveled together to England, France, Switzerland and Italy,” Ms. Tedeschi said. “I worked with 34 students from all over the USA. Normandy and Bologna were two of my favorite stops on the tour. I never visited Bologna before and Normandy is always impressive. They had a great exhibit on propaganda.”
This marks Ms. Tedeschi’s 22nd year on the Huntington faculty. A graduate of Walt Whitman High School, she obtained an undergraduate degree at Pace University and graduate degrees at Stony Brook University and CUNY-Queens College. She is also certified as a school librarian.
“After I finished my work with the gap year program, I went to visit a former traveler and student from the Class of 2012 in Antwerp and we visited Bruges in northwest Belgium,” Ms. Tedeschi said.
That alum is none other than Katherine Shirley, who is getting married this fall in Bordeaux, France. Ms. Tedeschi will be attending the festivities. “She works in the shipping industry,” the teacher said about the Huntington grad. “She went to Ohio State and then studied abroad and completed her master’s degree in Europe. She speaks English, French and Dutch. Pretty cool stuff.”
When it was time to leave Europe, Ms. Tedeschi jetted off to Aruba “to relax and revive because the gap year program was demanding,” she said.
Ms. Tedeschi has served as a student government class advisor and History Day club advisor. She has been recognized by EF Tours and Me to We for excellence in teaching and for showing her students the world. She was the honored educator at WE Day in Manhattan in April 2016 and holds the title of Global Education Ambassador for Long Island. She loves to travel and has been a guest speaker at several conventions and training tours abroad for teachers.
“I am really excited for the new school year,” Ms. Tedeschi said. “We are traveling to Italy in April and I’m one of the Class of 2027 advisors. It’s going to be a fun year.”
