Jaime moved to Arizona about two decades ago and has been a part of the teaching staff at Fountain Hills High School for the past 18 years. He is current chair of the English Department and has received many accolades over the years.

Those include Chamber “Teacher of the Year” in 2022, EF Tours Teacher Appreciation 2016, 12 News A+ Teacher Appreciation 2013 and the “Silver Falcon” winner at FHHS 2011, 2016 and 2022. He graduated from Miami University in Ohio with a B.A. in both creative writing and psychology. He went back to get his Master of Arts in Teaching in secondary education.

Jaime has chaperoned student trips through EF Tours for the past seven years to numerous European countries. He has written many short stories, with a few of them winning online contests. He wrote a screenplay that made it to the final round of a film festival.

To him books aren’t just words on a page. They’re snapshots of a time with characters reflecting the people and values as seen through the author’s eyes. He teaches students to see the psychology of humanity in this manner, discussing choices made rather than just dissecting sentence and word choice.