Our system is failing us. We have consistently prepared our youth less and less each year to be functioning citizens. We have strangled education with a sprawling and disconnected beauracracy. Our rich schools prepare kids to participate in huge corporations that are off-shoring jobs. Our poorer schools can scarcely escape the lowest rung of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. And our youth will inherit this system until we innovate a new way.

My journey towards teacherhood is presented here in HTML, CSS, and PHP; languages of the present. The code that runs this site is maintained by the global cooperation of people interested in sharing core infrastructure; Drupal. I will carry this to my classroom.
While I work to meet standards to teach Industrial Arts in California public classrooms at National University, I will simultaneously develop a co-operative non-profit(link to a PDF from UC Davis) career and technical model creating an apprenticeship/entreprenurial opportunity for public schools.
I have spent the better part of 4 years substitute teaching in Cupertino Union School District, including 3 long-terms. I have volunteered a substantial amount of time in Neal Wooley's woodshop at Hyde Middle School(I'd link to the page, but it is missing!).

Currently, I am building an educational shop model, while learning hands-on skills in carpentry, electrical, and finishwork in my garage in Sunnyvale, California. I am cutting stock, and designing storage units/workstations to further develop during my internship. I am confident that developing a hands-on approach to education will offer an opportunity to relieve the realities of budgets faltering with a fulfilling, productive efficiency.