Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York was the first alternative education program in Otsego County, New York. Created by English teacher Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun, the school was first located in the basement of a Unitarian church in Oneonta, New York.
Mike Newell teaches English at Upward Bound High School.
The snippet states he was an English teacher and helped create the school, not does not actually say he taught English there.