“I’ll move to Miami and teach high school math if you give me the toughest school you have” Don told the Director of Human Resources for Miami-Dade County schools. Later that day, he was hired to teach mathematics in Liberty City in one of America’s toughest schools. With a B.S. in Mathematics and no formal teaching training, Don set out to impact the students in his class with a whole lot of love, a little common sense and a style that is anything but common.

Don learned through his experiences in Miami that kids are kids. They all want and need the same things: love, structure and direction. When these three elements are present, learning takes off!

Don has been where you are- a classroom teacher. The same principles and strategies that work with 42 high school kids in a book storage room in inner city Miami in one of America’s hardest schools will work right where you are.

Now, Don spends his time enabling educators to be more effective. From small districts to large, Don works directly with classroom teachers, building administrators and district leaders to empower them to be highly effective for the ones they so desperately want to impact . . . their students!