CONTACT INFO
Phone
Frederick High School - (580) 335-5521
BIO
Career
I am currently a teacher at Frederick High School, Frederick, OK, where I instruct Algebra 1 and Sociology. I started teaching at FHS in fall 2011.
Prior to teaching in Frederick, I was a teacher at Eldorado Public Schools, Eldorado, OK, for two years where I had the opportunity to instruct a variety of subjects, including: Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Psychology, Personal Financial Literacy, Computer Applications, Keyboarding, 7th Grade Math, 5th and 6th Grade Reading...in a small school everyone has to "wear a bunch of different hats" as they said when I was hired there. They were right. I also had the opportunity to serve in several other capacities as far as being a sponsor and helping with technology and the school website. This was my first teaching job.
Before teaching I explored a few other career fields including working for OKDHS in the Child Welfare Department and serving as a TCC (training) Manager for IRT. I graduated from East Central University, Ada, OK, with a B.S. in Psychology, and, once I had decided to pursue teaching as a long-term career, I was Alternatively Certified in the State of Oklahoma to teach Social Studies, Math, and Biological Sciences. I sought this variety of teaching fields for two reasons: 1.) marketability (it's a competitive workplace out there and it's going to become more so) and 2.) I thought I was up to the challenge.
Prior to teaching in Frederick, I was a teacher at Eldorado Public Schools, Eldorado, OK, for two years where I had the opportunity to instruct a variety of subjects, including: Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Psychology, Personal Financial Literacy, Computer Applications, Keyboarding, 7th Grade Math, 5th and 6th Grade Reading...in a small school everyone has to "wear a bunch of different hats" as they said when I was hired there. They were right. I also had the opportunity to serve in several other capacities as far as being a sponsor and helping with technology and the school website. This was my first teaching job.
Before teaching I explored a few other career fields including working for OKDHS in the Child Welfare Department and serving as a TCC (training) Manager for IRT. I graduated from East Central University, Ada, OK, with a B.S. in Psychology, and, once I had decided to pursue teaching as a long-term career, I was Alternatively Certified in the State of Oklahoma to teach Social Studies, Math, and Biological Sciences. I sought this variety of teaching fields for two reasons: 1.) marketability (it's a competitive workplace out there and it's going to become more so) and 2.) I thought I was up to the challenge.
Family
I married my wonderful, beautiful wife Megan in 2005. She is awesome...don't bother to disagree. On March 17, 2011, we were blessed with our first child. The amazing Allison (that --> is a picture of her on her birthday). While being parents has changed our priorities, and is the primary reason we are glad to now be working close to our home in Frederick, it has reinforced my belief that education is of the utmost importance. It is critical to me that as Allison grows she not only increase her available knowledge and her research abilities to find new knowledge, but that she learn healthy, creative habits when it comes to learning, so she can be successful in the rapidly-changing, technologically-ingrained, ultra-competitive global workplace for which she is growing up to be a part. I see more than ever that I need to work as hard as I can to help my students learn how to be life-long-learners that can assimilate information on their own and use it creatively to solve new problems I haven't even thought of yet. (I told you she was amazing.)
