About The Journey
The journey to "Teaching Re-Explored: The Relentless Pursuit for Student Success" was long, very long. There are perhaps few that realize at age eleven that they love to teach, yet that was my start. Scouting was an integral part of my life from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, Explorers and on to unit and district leadership. Then there were various other experiences, such as teaching gymnastics to kids at the YMCA to coordinating a team of youth tennis enthusiasts, scorekeeping for a WTA tournament in La Costa, California. For nine years, I served in the US Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, as a Cadet Training Officer, with duties from squadron level to wing, all focused on 12 to 20 year-old Cadets. I was trained and facilitated SuperCamp-Stanford University with Quantum Learning Network of Oceanside, California and taught medicine to teenagers with the National Youth Leadership Forum at University of California, Los Angeles and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the middle of all these experiences, I was also an Anglican monk for 35 years in Vista, California, with the Community of Christian Family Ministry. We ministered to many children over those years, including children of our own. At one point in time, there were twelve adults and and twelve children sitting around the dinner table. I have been working with wood since high school, and spent over 30 years as a custom woodworker and owner of Mustard Tree Woodcraft.
With age, full-time woodworking and antique restoration became too difficult to continue, at which point, and with much support and prayer from my wife, I went back to graduate school at California State University, San Marcos, and earned multiple single subject teaching credentials in the sciences, thus fulfilling a lifelong goal to become a credentialed teacher for real. I also received a Master of Science in Education from California Baptist University, Riverside, California. I now teach 8th grade Physical Sciences and 7th - 12th grade Wood Shop at Bellevue Christian School in Clyde Hill, Washington. I never pictured myself falling in love with middle school education, but my kids are the best and inspire me to achieve my highest as their teacher.
The journey to "Teaching Re-Explored: The Relentless Pursuit for Student Success" was long, very long. There are perhaps few that realize at age eleven that they love to teach, yet that was my start. Scouting was an integral part of my life from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, Explorers and on to unit and district leadership. Then there were various other experiences, such as teaching gymnastics to kids at the YMCA to coordinating a team of youth tennis enthusiasts, scorekeeping for a WTA tournament in La Costa, California. For nine years, I served in the US Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, as a Cadet Training Officer, with duties from squadron level to wing, all focused on 12 to 20 year-old Cadets. I was trained and facilitated SuperCamp-Stanford University with Quantum Learning Network of Oceanside, California and taught medicine to teenagers with the National Youth Leadership Forum at University of California, Los Angeles and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In the middle of all these experiences, I was also an Anglican monk for 35 years in Vista, California, with the Community of Christian Family Ministry. We ministered to many children over those years, including children of our own. At one point in time, there were twelve adults and and twelve children sitting around the dinner table. I have been working with wood since high school, and spent over 30 years as a custom woodworker and owner of Mustard Tree Woodcraft.
With age, full-time woodworking and antique restoration became too difficult to continue, at which point, and with much support and prayer from my wife, I went back to graduate school at California State University, San Marcos, and earned multiple single subject teaching credentials in the sciences, thus fulfilling a lifelong goal to become a credentialed teacher for real. I also received a Master of Science in Education from California Baptist University, Riverside, California. I now teach 8th grade Physical Sciences and 7th - 12th grade Wood Shop at Bellevue Christian School in Clyde Hill, Washington. I never pictured myself falling in love with middle school education, but my kids are the best and inspire me to achieve my highest as their teacher.