Welcome Panthers!  I hope you are as excited as I am about all the new and wonderful opportunities that this year has in store.  During our year together we will be traveling the entire globe to learn about geography, world history, modern world cultures, and some of  the different civilizations past and present on our planet.  We will study culture, government, history, and economics along the way.  Students, you have been preassigned to a Google Classroom for your specific class period.  I will post a nine-week calendar there, agendas, copies of classwork and homework, reading packets, etc.  Parents cannot join the classroom, but you can print out a nine-week calendar for them so they know what we are doing.  

This is my 27th year of teaching and my 15th year here at Lopez Middle School teaching 6th grade social studies.  I taught 8 years at Hobby Middle School before joining the Bush staff for 3 years.  I then took a couple of years off to be a stay-at-home-dad before returning to the classroom (another year at Bush) and finally landing at Lopez MS.  

I graduated from Baylor University in 1990, and I am a huge Baylor fan! This is my 30th year of having football season tickets and my third for having men's basketball season tickets.  Our men's basketball team won the NCAA basketball Championship four years ago!  Looking forward to another great year for them this year.  I am hoping it is going to be a great year for my Bears!  

It was at Baylor that I met and married my wife, Lisa Walls. She was a teacher and Coach at Bush MS for 25 years, but retired at the end of last year.  She is still working as a teacher.  She is just at a private school now.  We have been married for 33 years and have one son who will be in his third year at NC State.  He is one of the greatest blessings of my life!