Welcome to 7th Grade with Mr. Lebell

Hello and welcome to 7th Grade! My name is Mr. Lebell and I am excited to be your teacher.

I am from Santa Barbara. I went to Santa Barbara Charter School from Kindergarten through 8th grade. I graduated from UC Santa Barbara with my Major in Global Studies and a minor in the history of Art and Architecture.

I became a teacher because I love helping people make sense of the world, our place within it, and the power we have to transform the world around us. 

My guiding philosophy can be surmised as “We take care of ourselves, we take care of each other, and we take care of the spaces we inhabit” It is our ability to take care on all of these levels that is the basis of our freedom.

We live in complicated and transformative times and to meet these challenges we must become active participants in our own lives, whom we want to become, and the world around us.

I just moved back to California after living in Toronto Canada for the past 2 years. Outside of school I love to travel, hike, ride my bicycle, try new foods, and I am learning Italian