Daniel Learning Services

A professional educator with twenty years of experience inspiring students and igniting fires of curiosity. Founder and owner of Daniel Learning Services, which provides original courses in the social sciences as well as curriculum and inspiring products. I have worked in many environments – community college history instructor, high school and middle school social studies teacher, math tutor, and have worked extensively as an at-home teacher for home-bound students with profound disabilities. I am a certified Montessori guide to adolescents and I love working with home-schoolers.

Thinking outside Pandora’s box. Opening Pandora’s mind. Everything I do as an educator is guided by a professional philosophy based on these axioms:  Teacher and student are learning partners.  Young people are unique and autonomous individuals who have self-sovereignty.  Young people are always actively learning, as Montessori proved.  instruction must be driven by inspiration, rather than coercion.  Learning should be a balanced exploration of competing explanations for things, not the adult’s personal agendas  Student self-direction  individualization of learning based on the student’s interests

I am remembered by many students and parents for making life-changing differences in the life paths of struggling students. Inspiring a fourth grade student to have the will to start reading again; preventing a teen with a learning disorder from dropping out of school; reigniting the desire to study in a homebound teen with PANDAS; and my work with many inner city children, which resulted in some gaining access to exceptional schools. My favorite recent achievement was when a mother told me that her ten year old was so inspired by my science lessons that she decided to take up astronomy and decorate her room like the solar system.

 Presently a doctoral student in (Montessori) Educational Leadership, University of Wisconsin  Master of Arts in Education, Social Studies grade 5 – 12  Certified Montessori Guide to Adolescents (A.M.I.)  ABD in Political Science doctoral program, Boston University  Master of Arts in History, University of Toronto  Bachelor of Arts in History, California State University Northridge

I hail from Canada, became a U.S. citizen in 2016. TRAVELLER (my favorite so far was the South Pacific) DUNGEON MASTER (keep your eyes peeled for my History lesson D & D campaign series!) ARCHERY COACH, and INTERCONNECTOLOGIST.