Camille Hommeyer teaches 11th and 12th grade Special Day Class (SDC) and Inclusion English Language Arts at Manual Arts High School (MAHS) in South Los Angeles, where she also serves as the English and special education department chair. Over the past two years, MAHS students with IEPs (primarily Black and Latino males) made significant gains on both the CST (71 point API increase, the largest increase in a special education department in an LAUSD school in over two decades) and the ELA portion of the CAHSEE (from zero SDC students passing to a 10% passage rate). Camille is passionate about empowering her students through the use of real-world skills such as advocacy, organization, and perseverance to achieve success. She graduated with a BA in English from Carleton College, and earned her MA in special education from Loyola Marymount University.
