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Esther Wojcicki has directed the journalism program at Palo Alto (Calif.) High School since 1987 and is chair of Creative Commons.
She served on the University of California's curriculum committee where she helped revise the state's journalism curriculum.
She was the 1990 northern California journalism teacher of the year and was selected as the California Teacher of the Year in 2002 by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. In 2009, she was awarded the Gold Key by Columbia Scholastic Press Association.