Turner ashby High School

Michael Villacrusis received his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and his A.B. from Cornell University with majors in English and History. He began teaching in 1988 in Pennsylvania, where he developed several interdisciplinary courses and helped pilot the Pennsylvania Writing Project. Since 2007 he has taught at Turner Ashby HS in Bridgewater, Virginia, where he is the English department instructional leader and the coach of the speech and debate teams. In 2021 he was named the National Federation of High School’s Outstanding Speech/Debate/Theatre Educator for Virginia. He also served as an Instructor at Eastern Mennonite University for 14 years.