This is the part about Ben! Ben has done a lot of stuff in a lot of schools. First Ben met and married the amazing AnnMarie and they had 2 pretty awesome kids. Ben started his education career first as a custodian in an elementary school while he was attending the University of Nevada, Reno. His plan to teach high school English was diverted by one of his many mentors and he ended up with an elementary education degree and a kindergarten teacher. He followed this up with teaching career that includes teaching Kindergarten through 6th grade at 4 different schools, including two years of teaming with AnnMarie in 2nd grade. From there he went on to working as a district instructional coach, building instructional coach, Dean of Students and now as an Assistant Principal. Along the way he created TeachNVACS and #teachNVchat as a way to showcase what Nevada teachers were doing in their classrooms and through this work and with Nevada CUE, he met Kyle. This friendship led to the creation of this podcast, since Ben loves beer and loves talking education.

When he's not talking education or drinking a beer he's traveling with AnnMarie, hiking, running in the mountains or trying to hurt himself on bicycles.

You can check out Ben on Twitter @bdicksonNV or on his blog https://bdicksonnv.wordpress.com/