Bio

Prior to coming to the Educational Service & Staff Development Association of Central Kansas in 2000 to work as a social studies curriculum specialist, I taught for five years in the Social Science department at Tabor College, Hillsboro, Kansas. Before that, I spent almost a decade at Derby Middle School working with 8th graders. Throughout the years, I’ve taught a variety of content including Kansas History, American History, World History and World Geography.

As a state certified standards trainer with a Master’s degree in American History, I am able to facilitate curriculum and assessment writing for schools and districts as well as research-based best practices in Social Studies. I lead technology integration conversations on topics such as blogging, social networks, video games & simulations, web literacy, and provide support in copyright/plagiarism issues.

I enjoy playing golf, surfing the Web, reading just about any history non-fiction and watching my kids play high school sports.

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Disclosure Statement:

Although I work for ESSDACK, all of the opinions, terrible grammar, weak thinking and poor judgment posted on HistoryTech belong to me. (I will also take credit for the occasionally brilliant post or useful link.)

I will often suggest web sites, products and materials but have not yet taken money or products in kind for doing so. But as the uber-smart Doug Johnson says:

Now there is one big caveat to all of this. If the price were right, I would probably say just about anything. I am thinking $100K would pay off the mortgage, allow me to fill up both family motor vehicles at the same time, and get the LWW that new garbage disposal she’s been pining for. Cool.

I suspect it’s good for my professional reputation that I work in education where the profit margin is so small that the temptations just aren’t that tempting . . .

Hopefully you’ve learned (or will learn) to trust what I have to say. If you ever have a question, I expect you to call me on it.