After serving in the United States Coast Guard for four years, I became a Social Studies teacher for 15 years in St. Louis Missouri. I then became Dean, assistant principal, and also a four-time high school principal in three schools in Illinois (where I was named Principal of the Year for the state of Illinois), and at one school in Missouri. I was inducted into The One Hundred Headmasters, a national organization which recognizes “outstanding principals.”
Simultaneously, I coached high school, then college football, and high school, then college Girls Basketball. I served as Director of Secondary Education in the Normandy School District in St. Louis, Missouri. I served as Director of Secondary Education, Director of Curriculum and instruction, and elementary school assistant principal in Wilmington, Delaware. After retirement from Delaware, I moved to Philadelphia, where I was hired to coach and mentored K-12 principals.
After moving to Colorado (To be near the grandkids), I have worked at Overland High School as a Dean, at the Foote Center (Juvenile Penal System) as a teacher, while coaching football at Overland High School, I have held a COSA position at Prairie Middle School, and have served as an AVID Tutor in three Cherry Creek schools; Horizon, Sky Vista, and CT high School, I am currently coaching Freshman Girls Basketball at Vista Peak HS and previously at Cherry Creek HS, while serving as the acting Assistant Principal at West Middle School.
I hold a HS diploma, a BS Degree in social studies, a Master’s Degree in Education Processes, a Specialist Degree in Secondary Administration, a Doctorate Degree in secondary administration and leadership, and I have completed all course work required for a second Doctorate Degree, in curriculum and instruction. I have written two books about education, one book about parenting, and four recently published books on various topics. I am currently now structuring another book, “Shepherding” about organizing education where students and teachers loop together over two to three years. I am currently a substitute teacher and assistant basketball coach in the Cherry Creek School District, Colorado.
A common statement heard recently from many American reporters, politicians, and citizens is, “Americans are more divided today than we have ever been.” The claims of unprecedentedly high levels of division in America are, of course, inaccurate. Even as far back as the 1600s, as indicated in “The 1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones, people living [...]
What engages and motivates students to write excellent papers? What makes teaching more enjoyable and efficient for teachers? Peer Proofreading offers powerful answers to these questions for students at both the elementary and secondary level. This pedagogy makes teaching more enjoyable because students help each other produce high-quality academic work. Proofreading teams – [...]
