Last updated on 04/01/2005 02:42 PM
This is Luke, a retired teacher who has spent over 33 years in the classroom. His experience is primarily with 6th-8th grade students.
His teaching career began in 1971 at Oak School in Niles, Illinois. After nine years, he was transferred to Nelson School, also in Niles. While at Nelson, he served on the committee that wrote the district’s first comprehensive technology curriculum.
Eight years later he made the move to Gemini Junior High School. He retired from Gemini in June, 2004. While there, he taught Math, Science, Social Studies, Academic Enrichment and, for over ten years, Computer Applications. During that time, he also served as the advisor for the school newspaper for 3 years, coached girls’ basketball for 5 years and was a member of the District Technology Task Force.
He is a member of ICE, Illinois Computing Educators, and has served on the planning committee for IL-TCE, the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators, for the last three years as well as coordinating tech staff volunteers for the conference.
He has been a conference presenter at IL-TCE seven times and has also been a presenter at the MECC conference in Minneapolis.
Luke received his B.A. from North Park University in Chicago and his M.Ed. from National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.
The easiest way to contact Luke is through email:
You can also check out his Blog and contact him through that site.
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