Instructor

Bob taught for 25 years, designing and facilitating talented and gifted programs for grades 3-8, as well as teaching middle- and high-school English classes. He was an Oregon Education Teacher of the Year. Students nominated him for Who's Who Among America Teachers, a Nobel Teacher Award, the K103 radio teacher of the week. A parent nominated him for mainstreaming teacher of the year. He has taught in Upward Bound, and the Duke University Summer Tip Program, a three-week writing intensive summer school course. He has facilitated writing workshops in California, Washington and Oregon, and his writing has appeared in the Smithsonian, Golf Illustrated, ZYZZYVA, the Seattle Times, the Oregonian, Oregon Coast Magazine, and other print publications. It has aired on the Savvy Traveler, MarketPlace and Oregon Public Radio and Television.