About+Mr.+Greenstone

I'm delighted to be at FWP, and if you're curious here's a bit about my background.

I'm a native South Sider (Go Sox!), and I attended Haverford College. I played on the record-setting Haverford basketball team which, due to bad refereeing and an appalling shortage of talent, lost 37 straight games, one by 70 points. Sadly, that's not a typo.

In 1994 I received a M.A. in education at Harvard University.

My first teaching gig was at Morton West High School. After that I moved to Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1996, where I taught World History and United States History.

I have also taught aspiring teachers at Roosevelt University.

From 2005-2007 I taught Asian Studies at the Taipei American School, and coached the fighting Tigers (9th grade edition). I am proud to say that I led my band of overachieving 14-year-olds to a winning record and that I never got a technical foul or really lost my cool, despite the poor listening-skills and near constant inattentiveness of a certain highly hormoned Tiger, who shall remain nameless.

In 2007, I moved back to the States and I resumed teaching at OPRF again.

With my free time, I enjoy writing. For those of you absolutely starved for reading material, click here--- [|oliviapdf.pdf]for an article about gender and motherhood, and here--- [|frightenedgeorge.pdf]for one about how and why pediatricians and educators stripped fear out of the //Curious George// series, thus ruining it.