Ralph Covino, PhD

Dr. Ralph Covino is the Humanities Coordinator at GPS and an award-winning teacher of Ancient History, Human Geography, and Latin. In July of 2024, he travelled to GPS’s partner school in Brisbane, Australia, St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School, as a part of a faculty exchange. In recent years, he received the Tennessee Geographic Alliance’s Tom and Stella Mullane Geography Teacher of the Year Award for grades seven through 12, was named a National Geographic Education 'Educator of the Week', and chosen to be a Fellow of the Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa, a Summer Fellow of the Athena Project, an American Geographical Society Teacher Fellow, and a Fellow of the Global Action Research Collaborative of the International Coalition of Girls' Schools. Dr. Covino has participated in ArtsBuild's Holmberg Arts Leadership Institute, the Tennessee Association of Independent Schools’ New and Emerging Leaders Institute through Vanderbilt University, and the Tennessee Geographic Alliance’s Geography Leadership Institute. In addition to his roles at GPS, he also serves as elected Executive Secretary of the South East World History Association, the East Tennessee Liaison to the Tennessee Association of Independent Schools, and as a NASA/JPL volunteer Solar System Ambassador.