ENGAGED EDUCATOR

Empowered educators and students are self-reliant, exercise reason and refrain from value-driven judgments.  The innovation and creativity necessary to move schools forward will come partially from adopting appropriate integration of technology, smaller class sizes and socially responsible funding, as well as collaboration between administrators, educators, parents, students and communities toward shared goals.  As a teacher of Social Studies on the Mainstream, Honors, Advanced Placement and College Now grade levels, I have had the pleasure of teaching students to meet the challenges posed to the future of American democracy through evidentiary-based learning to fuel their collaborative decisions.  "Everyone Matters” in the evolution, development and implementation of educational strategies for the classroom of tomorrow to empower participatory citizenship.  In our efforts to implement new educational strategies, I strongly feel a responsibility toward teaching history that will not merely provide facilitation of content knowledge, but wisdom about how best to apply the lessons of history toward living our lives peacefully.  This process begins by recognizing that democratic realism and American internationalism start with a school tone and culture based on unconditional positive regard for one another.