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About Me
About Me
My name is Brad Boelman. I earned my BA in History and Music from California Lutheran University. After my undergrad, I joined the Peace Corps to teach literacy, history, and music in Samoa. This is my eighth year teaching. I love including music in my history curriculum. No one expects their history teacher to play their violin during class.
I come from a family of teachers, so in many ways, I simply joined the family business. My teaching philosophy is rooted in the idea of encouraging students to make mistakes boldly. By creating a learning environment where students make mistakes, it gives them insight into how they deal with setbacks. The setback does not define the person. The reaction to the setback does.
About My School
About My School
I teach at Calabasas High School in the Las Virgenes Unified School District. This is my fifth year at CHS. Go Coyotes! I am grateful to teach at a high school with so many opportunities to get involved. In addition to teaching, I also run the Model United Nations program. This activity has given students and myself the opportunity to travel to prestigious universities to compete, including Stanford, Georgetown, UCLA, and USC.
I also enjoyed the opportunity to play in The Hunchback of Notre Dame pit orchestra in 2018, and enjoy playing in the Comedy Sportz Teacher Match at the end of each school year.
Our school district has implemented new SLOs with the Student 360 model. This involves specific dispositions to support student learning including: Persistence and Grit, Collaborative Communities, Empathy and Understanding, Positive Mindset, Mindfulness and Thoughtfulness, Autonomy and Independence.
Classes I Teach
Classes I Teach
This is my fourth year teaching this course for senior students. We cover the equivalent of an Introduction to Political Science course in college, and the students take an exam in May. We survey all the basic concepts of government including a deep-dive into the foundational documents, but also learn how to better apply theoretical concepts from class into the real world. Learning about American government during the Trump Administration has ensured dialogue and a greater passion by students to get involved.
The AP Seminar course is meant to recreate a lower division research methods course for 10th and 11th grader students. It is the first of two required courses to complete the AP Capstone program. Students learn how to conduct research, analyze bias in sources, write literature reviews and conduct a collaborative research study in preparation for the AP Exam and for potential publication.
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