I’m excited to be joining the faculty of Carolina Day School this summer.

I’m going back to my roots and teaching English and Social Studies in their 7th grade program. What’s unique and intriguing to me about the course of study at Carolina Day is that the Middle School starts with a 6th grade study of Asheville and Western North Carolina histories and literatures which expands to American histories and literatures in the 7th and finally world histories and literatures in the 8th.

So, I’m excited to tackle 7th Language Arts/Literatures and American Studies moving ahead (just have to figure out how to incorporate squirrels, of course).

For the “identity” of the class (aka GriffinScience or SkyhawkScience before), I’m strongly leaning towards using the StudiesLab (@studieslab) brand and Tumblr as the platform because of its many advantages in terms of sharing and mobile use. I’m thinking due to the broad range and scope of the class, StudiesLab would be a good fit.

So, here’s to the next adventure!