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Email: John Creger
John Creger has taught English and ESL at American High School
in Fremont CA since 1987. The 2001 recipient of NCTE’s James
Moffett Memorial Award, he was also one of 13 nominees for Fremont
Unified School District’s Teacher of the Year (1999-2000).
He has served as a California State Mentor Teacher (93-95) and
been nominated by former students to five editions of Who’s
Who Among America’s Teachers (‘92, ‘94,
’98, 02, 04). John did graduate work in Literature at San
Francisco State University where he wrote the thesis, The
Responsive Universe: Spiritual Awareness in Western Literature
from Blake to the Millennium (1997). He offered the first
in his “Universe-Wired” workshop series for teachers
at the national conference of the National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE)’s Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on
Learning (AEPL) in June 1998. His emphasis is on creating conditions
for deepened motivation in students and workshop participants
by designing activities, courses, and curriculum to bring in perspectives
on the “big picture,” particularly in response to
“big questions” about life, reality, and the universe.
His approach evolves from the “surprising ways the universe
keeps finding to deal with my old big questions and bring me new
ones.”
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