• 2007-'08 is my sixth year teaching at Palo Alto High School, and my third year as a teacher advisor.
  
• Courses:  Reading; Facing History and Ourselves English elective (10th grade).


• Member of the Teacher Leadership Network, National Council of Teachers of English, and California Association of Teachers of English.
• National Board Certified Teacher (2004) - Adolescent/Young Adult English Language Arts.
• Master's Degree in Education; Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP), 1995.
• Bachelor's Degree in English, with High Distinction; U.C. Berkeley, 1991.
  
• Phi Beta Kappa, U.C. Berkeley.

• 1998-2001 - English Teacher at Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA.
• 1995-'98 - English, Drama, Music Teacher at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Chicago.

• Originally from Los Angeles; attended Harvard(-Westlake) High School in North Hollywood.
• Also lived in Germany, Israel, Colorado Springs, and Chicago.
  
• Palo Alto resident and father of two boys, ages 4 and 6.
  

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