Welcome to Fourth Hexter, CHS Dragons!  

This year is moving at breakneck speed...faster than my e-bike in the picture above.  We are getting this learning page adjusted BEFORE the official start of the hexter...  "So yeah..." (to take a two-word phrase from my step-daughter, McKenzie, who just graduated last year).

For those of you that don't know me or have not had me in class, I was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois the same year the Beatles came to America, quickly established my allegiance to the Chicago White Sox, "da Bears,"  and the Land of Lincoln, in general.  In 1974 (FIFTY years ago...yikes!), my family moved to the great state of Colorado, where my dad and uncle purchased a candy store in Loveland that we owned and operated for most of the next fifteen years.  So yes, I am probably the ONLY history teacher in the state of Colorado who actually MADE candy for a living during my teens and early twenties.  After my parents sold the candy shop, I sold real estate for a year before going to Aims Community College and the University of Northern Colorado, graduating in 1996.  I started my teaching career at a small K-12 school in southeastern Colorado in 1997, teaching all social studies classes, including reading, speech, and yearbook.  I left there to get married in 2015, and began teaching at Centennial, literally TWO DAYS later (my wife was really thrilled about that).  I'm a big sports fan...LOVE the Nuggets, can't figure out my Broncos (although it seems the rest of the NFL has no problem in that department), and I just don't talk about my White Sox at this point...they are ALMOST as bad as the Broncos...ugh!  So, I am in the midst my ninth year at Centennial and my twenty-seventh year of teaching overall, and really love what I do and being here at this wonderful place.

I hope you all are excited and ready to start the fourth hexter of the 2023-24 school year...and get hopefully get ready for some snow...somewhere.   Anyways, I am stoked about the upcoming hexter and, as always, I believe it's important that you show up, keep your eyes on the prize and move towards your ultimate goal of graduation.  I hope all is well within your family...that everyone in your sphere is healthy and that you are ready begin the fourth hexter of this educational journey!  I just want you all to know that I am here to help you through the academics of history and current world affairs, and that if you need someone to talk to, that I am here for you in that role as well.  This learning page is kind of the "home-base" for our class. I always remember that, as a kid, if I got lost, I would always remember where home was and find my way there...and believe me, even as an adult, I GET LOST...A LOT!!!  Just ask my wife, Megan, or any number of people that I work with.  If anyone needs a home base, it's me!  With that in mind, I hope that you find this "learning page" a helpful tool to reference if you get lost and need to find that base to start from again.  With that in mind, let's have a great hexter and a great New Year ahead.  I look forward to seeing you all in class!