Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) department teacher Nestor Domingo, the Gladius adviser, works with Gladius staff members in room 154 on Aug. 21. This is Domingo’s first year working at Clarke Central High School and advising the yearbook, and he hopes to encourage creativity in his students with a playful attitude. “I have a kind of goofy way of interacting with people and hopefully they’ll be more creative in that way, maybe kind of more inspiring to them, the group,” Domingo said. Photo by Owen Donnelly
As of the 2018-19 school year, Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) department teacher Nestor Domingo is taking over as the adviser of the Gladius.
Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) department teacher Nestor Domingo is beginning his first year at Clarke Central High School advising staff members of the Gladius, the CCHS yearbook. Domingo is replacing CTAE department teacher and former Gladius Adviser Dea Pool.
Domingo, a 2000 University of Georgia graduate, is excited to return to Athens from metro-Atlanta, where he taught in an elementary school for the past three years. Domingo also taught in middle schools prior to teaching in elementary school.
“I was interested in doing high school and kinda trying to get the triple crown in teaching and I love Athens,” Domingo said. “When I first started teaching, it was interesting to be part of, or to learn about, the community that the school’s in. When I was here as a student, I was in my own little world and I’m really interested in learning about the real Athens community that I kinda missed the first time and being part of whatever is here.”
According to Domingo, he wants to build on the excellence Pool established in the yearbook program and encourage a laidback and fun environment.
“Hopefully I can just maintain how, I found, kinda creative her group was,” Domingo said.
Senior and Gladius Editor-in-Chief Marissa Goodwin has taken the change in teachers well.
“I like (Domingo). He’s cool, and he’s playful. We get stuff done. I like his teaching style,” Goodwin said. “(He and Pool are) both like the same kinda sorta so I like that.”
Domingo also hopes to involve community members in the program, doing in-school visits, internships or field trips.
“Hopefully (we will have) some kind of visitors to bring in and introduce them to the larger community, especially here in Athens, and professional community,” Domingo said. “Like internships or just coming and visiting, field trips, you know — something. Start small.”
