Even though I am a "career changer," I always have wanted to teach. When I was younger, I tutored my sister and cousins. Even while I was working in the corporate sector I kept myself involved in the community by educating community members on finances or other topics. I began my teaching career as an instructor for at-risk, low-income students with low achievement scores in Brooklyn, N.Y., for three years.

I am an educator with vast experience dealing with students. I am a dedicated, creative, schoolteacher with successful experience in creating and implementing learning programs for a wide variety of students with multicultural backgrounds. I have a reputation of assessing and identifying student needs, designing and presenting appropriate and innovative educational experiences, and raising basic academic proficiencies for a wide variety of students. I am a patient, persuasive teaching professional who seeks new opportunities to help young people expand their intellectual and life goals and expectations. I also provide students with guidance to gain the necessary skills and understandings to achieve those goals.

I teach language arts through a combination of provided curriculum, programs, and personal assessment. As a valued member of a team, I helped a school reach its state-established goal for progress. I have participated in and directed several extra curricular opportunities for students and parents. I served as a chairman of an English department charged with directing educators on a schoolwide basis, and a cluster leader responsible for students and teachers within a school population. I also was responsible for addressing the academic needs of multicultural sixth grade students with low-incomes and low achievement scores in an inner-city school, where I taught language arts, mathematics and social studies. I designed and implemented a series of academic programs, which increased pupil, and parent involvement, accelerated learning, raised performance levels and scores, and improved students' verbal communication.

I am also a founding member, and participating teacher in "Just L." The Just L summer program is an enrichment program that helps students prepare for the upcoming school year. The program involves remediation and enrichment for each student. I developed a parent-participation program in which parents lead classroom discussions and share life values, attitudes, and experiences. I also sponsored the Gentlemen's Association at Dr. Ernest Everett Just Middle School, which grooms young men to become gentlemen. I am licensed to teach in the states of New York and Maryland. I have a Master of Science degree in elementary education and a Master of Arts degree in public administration and urban planning from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, N.Y.

I have taken full advantage of trying to give my students the best learning experience that I can. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pa., I had a very good educational experience, which continued through college. My newest challenge is to become the math teacher for the first all boys' charter school in the state of Delaware. I recently moved to Wilmington, Del., with my wife, Betty, of eight months, and our dog, Bear.