Victoria Francis

Victoria Francis

Victoria Francis, MEd, EdS, spent over 40 years teaching high school English, newspaper, yearbook, photography, and graphic design classes in Idaho, New Mexico, and Hawaii. Overseeing a 30-computer Mac lab and an award-winning publications program at Capital High School in Boise, Idaho, her focus provided opportunities to develop skills that would launch students into successful jobs after graduation. Along with watching family members struggle with dyslexia, it was during her first teaching job in 1981 at an alternative high school in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that Francis developed a passion for working with “underdog” students—those who others felt had poor future prospects. She saw their strengths beyond their disabilities and worked to help them see the same.

Francis has served on numerous curriculum and standards development committees, including writing state and district journalism and photography curriculum. After obtaining National Board Teaching Certification in Career and Technical Education (CTE), she was invited to critique portfolios at the national and state levels. Believing that travel is a great educator, over the years Francis took hundreds of students to journalism conferences in cities across the United States.

Francis received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English education from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, a computer specialist master’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an education specialist degree in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on CTE administrative certification from the University of Idaho.