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Brad Houk
Brad Houk has two degrees in design (i.e.: creative problem-solving) and one in teaching. He earned his bachelor's degree from the College of Arts and Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, and his master's degree from the Graduate College of Design, North Carolina State University. After directing a summer sports camp, publishing a small artsy wrestling magazine, and teaching in a Chinese military college, a Friends private school, a state college, and a mime theater company, Brad decided, while living in Diné Bikéyah, to return to school to become a teacher. He completed a Master of Arts in Teaching program at Western New Mexico University-Gallup before moving to Vermont.
Brad is a licensed and Highly Qualified Teacher in Vermont. He has Level II general education endorsements to teach secondary art, physical education, and social studies. Brad has also met the HQT requirements for alternative assignments in science and English. In addition to teaching, Brad volunteers with the Bellows Falls Union High School wrestling team and teaches three courses at the Community College of Vermont: 1) Multiculturalism in Education at the Upper Valley campus; 2) The Paper Arts at the Springfield campus; and, 3) Dimensions of Freedom at the Springfield campus. Meanwhile, Brad just completed an Intermediate Mandarin Chinese course at The School for International Training, Brattleboro, as he works toward an endorsement to teach Chinese. Brad taught five years at Opportunities In Learning and has loved the experiences, the people, the growth. He wishes the students a smooth transition as they and the program move from The Fletcher Farm Foundation to Green Mountain
Union High School. And he wishes his colleagues the best of luck in their future endeavors.
Brad is married to Daryl (a licensed teacher/preschool collaborative director) and they have two children, Courtenay and Sander. Courtenay is sophomore at Bennington College and Sander is a senior at Green Mountain Union High School. Brad loves to hang out with his family, read, write, study Chinese, bicycle, run, lift weights, coach wrestling, watch movies, and travel. He considers travel essential not only to his own intellectual growth but to that of his children. Over the next few years he plans on traveling with them around the world.
At Heron Lodge
Mountains cover the white sun,
And oceans drain the golden river,
But you widen your view three hundred miles
By going up one flight of stairs.
written by Wang Chih-huan
translated by Witter Bynner & Kiang Kang-hu
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