Flint Hill School students, friends, colleagues, and parents (Go, Huskies!) as well as many, many other students, friends, colleagues and parents over all the years since 1948 at Park Street School, Lindley Park School, Fayetteville Street School, Asheboro Junior High School, Asheboro High School, Davidson College (especially Sig Ep brothers), U.S. Army Armor School, University of Louisville, University of Virginia, Fluvanna County Public Schools, University of Richmond, Forsyth Country Day School, Garrison Forest School, T. Rowe Price Associates, National Cathedral School, Bullis School, and Woods Charter School (Go, Wolves!).
My life in education has been delightfully influenced by the following (in roughly chronological order): my maternal grandmother (who was also a kindergarten teacher) my paternal grandmother (who was also a liberated Renaissance woman) Mr. Holland, Mrs. Davenport, Mrs. Woodley, Mrs. Stout, Mr. Walton, Mrs. Harrell, Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. Gulledge, Dr. Hight, Dr. Lowry Harold Jacobs' three mathematics textbooks George Polya's How To Solve It Davidson's IBM 1620 computer the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer the Apple II computer Steve Jobs' Apple Macintosh computer the University of Lousiville's HP time-share system the TI calculator Zal Usiskin & The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project Aggie Underwood and Tom Farquhar and Libby Cataldi Jamie Dickie & Emily Sanderson & Joe Vignolini Dick Sisley's Geometry & Algebra with Transformations Java, BlueJ, Geogebra, Khan Academy, Desmos Google Classroom OESIS, Exeter, NCSSM, Taft, NCTM, and Woodrow Wilson conferences Jo Boaler's Mathematical Mindsets and, of course, ALL MY STUDENTS & FELLOW TEACHERS WHO HAVE TAUGHT ME SO MUCH!