My Approach 
I work to integrate technology in the classroom, using project-based, collaborative activities. Although I teach students a great deal of content (as they find out on the tests and exams!), students who complete my courses successfully usually have mastered a wide array of skills, some social, some technological, and many academic skills besides: summarizing and interpreting text and graphics, organizing information and critical thinking. Above all, I strive for students to learn how to enjoy as many aspects of our work in the classroom as possible, and to give them interesting and challenging work that they will want to engage with.

Background
I studied jazz and studio music at the University of Miami, and then moved to Boston and Cambridge, where I worked my way through college as a professional musician; I graduated in 1986. After working as a musician and vocational counselor, I started teaching in 1997 in Worcester, Massachusetts in a technology-intensive, project-based school, the Accelerated Learning Laboratory. I taught history at Scituate High School and law, history and psychology at Nashoba Regional High School. I then took a year off to tour Scandinavia, the Baltics, England, and Scotland as a musician. Since then, I've been teaching at Chatham and Monomoy, and revived the classes Law & Society and Advanced Placement Psychology; I also taught Advanced Placement U.S. History at Chatham. Currently, Distance Learning Seminar, a  new, asynchronous remote learning class. I'm married to Aldona Pauliukonis,a special education teacher at Monomoy High School and I have two daughters, a step-son and a step-daughter, all adults.