Mr. Paul Saboe, History, Model U.N. 

St. Michael is pleased to announce that Mr. Paul Saboe will join its faculty for the 2019-2020 school year in History. He will replace Miss Anna Raley. 

"We're grateful for Miss Raley's service to the school, both as teacher and coach, " says school principal Faustin Weber. "She came to see me earlier in the year and told me she wanted to pursue opportunities to further her education next year, and we wish her well in that endeavor."  

Mr. Saboe currently works at Pope John Paul II High School in Nashville, where he has taught World History, Ancient Legacies, Modern Traditions and a host of history electives since the school’s founding in 2002. From 2008 through 2015,  he worked with then headmaster of the school, Faustin Weber, and they’ve kept in touch since.  

“I know Mr. Saboe quite well,” remarks Weber.  “He was one of the best teachers at JPII,  routinely recognized as such by the students. He’s particularly effective with freshmen,  helping them become more accountable, build organizational skills, and adjust to the freedoms and responsibilities of high school life. For this reason, I have asked him to teach Freshman World History here, both Honors and Collegiate Studies levels.” 

“In addition,"  Weber continues,  "Mr. Saboe is a superb Model United Nations sponsor. Since the team’s inception in 2002 at JPII, members of his teams have won 697 awards in 63 different conferences, including the Best Delegation Award at three of the last five University of Alabama Model UN Conferences. In 2016, he was selected as “Model U.N. Educator of the Year” by bestdelegate.com. I am very excited  that Mr. Saboe will begin a Model U.N. team here at St. Michael—it will be a fabulous, fun learning opportunity and a great addition to our school’s program.”  

Saboe is equally enthusiastic to be moving to the Gulf Coast: “I’m excited to be joining the St. Michael's community and look forward to helping our students see the beauty and wisdom in the history we study, the relevance of that history to our own times, and to helping our students develop the skills in public speaking, in writing, and in critical thinking that will serve them well all four years at St. Michael, in college, and beyond.  I also look forward to helping St. Michael start and develop a Model United Nations (UN) program, a program that will enable our students to realize gifts they did not realize they possessed in debate and diplomacy.”

Saboe earned a B.A. In History from Washington and Lee in 1997, with a degree in Public Policy, and has extended his education through a variety of NEH summer seminars, including “Churchill and America”,  “The American South: Geography and Culture”, “Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America”, and “Muslim American Identities, Past and Present”. He was recently honored as a "Ponce Law Outstanding Teacher" in the state of Tennessee--you can read what his former students said about him here. 

From 1999-2002 he was a residential dean and history teacher at Subiaco Academy in Arkansas, a Catholic, all boys boarding school. Prior to that, he worked as an Inspector for the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. 

Mr. Saboe and his wife, Lyndsey, have been married for 17 years. They have four dogs, including three basset hounds and an "old lab that does not realize it's not a basset hound," he says.