The Great and Mighty Mr. Scofield, as he prefers to call himself, began his quest for awesomeocity at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. A small private college, renowned for its beautiful collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, FSC was ideal for Mr. Scofield: a small college where it was not unusual to know everybody by sight, but where you could still be by yourself rather easily. After finishing high school as one of the top students of German in the history of his high school, Mr. Scofield began college with the intention of becoming a German teacher. He earned two years of German credit through a test, and started taking third-year German in his first year, while also majoring in mathematics and secondary education. When the school dropped the German major at the end of his freshman year, Mr. Scofield dropped his original career plan and went to his backup, which was to become a math teacher.
In May 1997, at the end of his junior year, he started dating a fellow math major. They officially began dating May 3, the day after the school year ended, and by June, were already discussing marriage. In August, barely three months after really getting to know each other, and having spent most of the summer on opposite sides of Florida, they were officially engaged.
After graduating from FSC in May 1998, Mr. Scofield moved to Jacksonville in August to begin his teaching career. His fiancee remained in Lakeland to finish her final semester, and they were married in December 1998, a mere two days after she graduated from college.
The Scofields returned to Polk County the next school year, where they remained until August 2015. During those 16 years, Mr. Scofield worked at a boarding school, a traditional private school, a few charter schools, an online school, and a community college. Their son Simon was born in 2004.
In August 2014, Mr. Scofield moved to Broward County to teach at Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores. Because his family couldn't move down with him, he spent the year renting a room and making the 4-hour drive home on most weekends. At the end of the school year, Mrs. Scofield's college allowed her to switch to a fully-online teaching schedule, and the whole family moved to Broward County in August 2015.
In 2017, Mr. Scofield transitioned from teaching math to becoming Doctors Charter School's instructional technologist, where he ran the Canvas Learning Management System, Google Workspace, the school website, the school calendar, and the morning announcements; he also assisted with troubleshooting technology and provided all technology-related trainings. In addition to his I.T. duties, Mr. Scofield served as the Computer Science Department Chair, teaching multiple sections of computer science, technology, and robotics.
At the end of the 2019-20 school year, Mr. Scofield was voted as the school's Teacher of the Year for his technology leadership and duties during the onset of the covid-19 pandemic.
In the 2020-21 school year, Mr. Scofield coached a team of two extraordinary 8th grade students who wanted to compete in the first-ever Sphero Global Challenge, using the school's Sphero robots. Because of the pandemic, the students were at home, and were never able to meet in person, relying on Zoom to chat about their coding. When all was said and done, they beat out 30+ other teams to win the first-ever Sphero Global Challenge Middle Division World Championship.
In the fall of 2022, Mrs. Scofield joined her husband on the faculty of Doctors Charter School, leaving her career as a math professor to take over the school's library. Their son graduated from Doctors Charter School the same school year, becoming the first person in the school's history to graduate while both parents worked there. Mrs. Scofield departed this position in February 2024, accepting a new role as a Library Associate at the Key Largo Public Library.
This forced her to relocate from Davie down to Homestead, and Mr. Scofield and their son followed in June 2024. Because of the Miami traffic, Mr. Scofield knew that he could no longer commute to Doctors Charter School, and had to leave after a decade of teaching and tormenting students there.
Mr. Scofield is an avid reader, and has read hundreds of books in his lifetime. He is a big comic book fan, and particularly enjoys reading his beloved Superman, along with other DC favorites. In fact, people often say that Mr. Scofield has an obsession with Superman, and he would cheerfully agree with you, although he will tell you that it is a lifestyle choice and not an obsession. How much of an obsession? He wore a Superman vest to his own wedding..and brought his newborn son home from the hospital in a Superman baby bunting.
In addition to collecting Superman memorabilia, Mr. Scofield is also a collector of LEGO and Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars. He has over 400 cars in his collection, and his LEGO collection includes sets like the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari 2600, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Hogwarts, the Space Shuttle, and other sets and minifigures.
Mr. Scofield is best known for his collection of awesome ties, and is hoping to one day have a tie for every school day, allowing him to go the entire year without wearing the same tie twice. At the moment, he has around 140 ties, which gets him into April before wearing the same tie twice. (If he participates in various dress-down days, he can make it into May without repeating.)
The ties used to be easy to find, but now he struggles to find ties that meet his standards. A tie must have a fictional character (cartoon, comic book, movie, etc), or an interesting/amusing animal, or a holiday theme, or be obnoxiously bright and colorful, or have a really interesting pattern.
Mr. Scofield is also famous--or perhaps infamous--for calling his students every name except their own, the most common one being "Bill" and variations thereof. He does this in part because he hates having to constantly ask a new student for their name, so by calling them all "Bill", he at least has something to call them while he learns the names; he also does it in part because it interests him to see how long it takes before they adapt and start responding to the names he gives them.
When asked to describe Mr. Scofield by students who had never met him, Mitio Rothstein, a former student who was in his class from 1999-2003, summed it up with, "You can't really describe Scofield. You just have to experience him."