John Damaso
I am an English teacher, department chair, and educational technology enthusiast at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ, USA.
My educational philosophy requires the following:
Early Adoption
Immediate Deployment
Improvisation
Adaptation
More specifically I believe that...
Teacher enthusiasm and energy beget both from students
High standards, if conveyed clearly, trump differentiation
Immediate deployment of new technology in the classroom models an attractive fail-to-succeed method for students
I have an MA in Linguistics from Queen Mary, University of London and a BS in Linguistics from Georgetown University.
My Masters thesis was entitled "The New Populist Dictionary: A Computer-mediated, Ethnographic Case Study of an Online, Collaboratively-authored English Slang Dictionary."
I do most of my reading in the summers and record short book reviews here on Goodreads. I run recognizable shapes via a mapping app on my blog Cardio Cartography, and I kept a Tumblr journal of my time in China called Pancake Colours.
