GLENN V. SQUIERS
501 Oakwood Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45419
937.672.5393
EDUCATION:
Master of Arts in Teaching: History, 1992
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
Bachelor of Arts: German, 1987
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont.
Universitat Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 1985-1986
Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, Fall 1982
Wirtemberg Gymnasium, Stuttgart, Germany, Spring 1981 and 1982
Burr & Burton Academy, Manchester, Vermont, 1978-1982
The Dorset School, Dorset, Vermont, 1970-1978
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIR, HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT CHAIR, TEACHER, COACH, ADVISOR
See: Mr. Squiers’ Website
SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT TEACHING INTERN
Designed and taught a series of World History Units based on Bernice McCarthy’s research in learning styles and hemispheric processing.
GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOW, HISTORY DEPARTMENT
Teaching Assistant For:
Professor Alfred Andrea, World History to 1500
Professor Henry Steffens, European Civilization I and II
Professor Henry Steffens, History of Science I and II
Worked closely with outstanding professors. Lectured. Led weekly seminar groups. Graded journal, papers, and essay examinations. Utilized professional journaling system. Learned, practiced, and emphasized writing to learn techniques. Kept office hours.
Inducted into the Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society in History.
GERMAN TEACHER, HISTORY TEACHER, COACH, ACTIVITIES MASTER, EVENING STUDY PERIOD SUPERVISOR, ADVISOR
Worked the last three of over one hundred fifty years of single-sex education at the school. Worked closely with outstanding faculty and administration. Participated in team teaching and interdisciplinary unit design. Helped organize and integrate bimonthly field trips to Washington D.C. sites into Western Civilization course. Can’t imagine a better start to a professional teaching career.
Primary Teaching Responsibilities:
German II, III, and IV Advanced Placement
Western Civilization (with Advanced Placement option)
Ancient History
Additional Academic Collaborations and Team Teaching:
Advanced Placement United States History-Literature Option
Within the Veil
Aspects of the Western Intellectual Tradition
(Taught with Dean of Faculty, Dr. J. Michael Miller, History Department Chair, Dr. Charles Skipper, and Theology Department Chair, Dr. Thomas Hummel)
SPRING QUARTER SUBSTITUTE GERMAN TEACHER
Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, Vermont.
Taught five sections of German, Levels I, II, and III.
ENRICHMENT TRAINING AND GROWTH EXPERIENCE:
Community Service:
2006 to 2008 First to Fly Foundation, Board of Directors
2006 to 2008 Moraine Airpark, Inc., Board of Directors, Secretary
2002 Centerville-Washington Diversity Council Meeting:
Understanding Interfaith Perspectives
2000 Bellbrook Junior High Presentation with Stephen K. Hayes
2000 Personally Founded and Financially Established
encouraging, supporting, and funding high quality training,
individualized experiential education, and noteworthy
achievement for teachers and community leaders who need it.
Driver for 1989 Nobel Peace Prize Winner the Dalai Lama and his
entourage at the 1999 Kalachakra for World Peace
1992 to 2003 Wide variety of school organized community service
projects and labor activities
1991 to 1992 Vermont Handicapped Ski Association
Volunteer Instructor
On-going forms forms of spiritual training and practice
June 2007 Elements Workshop
May 2007 Annual Mikkyo Seminar
March 2007 Watch over the death of my father
March 16, 2003 Vajra experience with dorje lopon Hayes
May 26, 2002 Formal Tokudo ordination vows and ceremony
at the Hombu dojo
July 22, 2001 Bodhisattva Vows, Dharma name, and full loop stole
in private ceremony on Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina
July 21, 2001 Mountain Quest Initiation into
Grandfather Mountain yamabushi tradition
March 4, 2001 Vow of Three Pure Precepts
August 28, 1999 Han-kesa exchange with H.H. the Dalai Lama
October 21, 1998 Triple Refuge Vows and han-kesa
at the Home Kasumi-An Dojo
the 1st Abbot of the Kasumi-An spiritual tradition. \
Beginning of in-depth training and practice
March 27, 1996 Began thought-stopping, centering, and insight
meditation training and practice at Humbu Dojo
On-going Nin-po training for To-Shin Do 3rd Degree Black Belt
September 15, 2001 To-Shin Do 2nd Degree Black Belt
January 28, 2000 To-Shin Do 1st Degree Black Belt
March 27, 1996 Ninjutsu / To-Shin Do White Belt
March 1987 Aikido White Belt
Aviation:
2007 US Department of Homeland Security
Flight School Security Awareness Training course
2007 AOPA Mountain Flying Program
2007 Established Quest Aviation Business
2007 Organized 1st Summer Gifts of Wings Immersion
2007 Established 1st MVS Flight Team
2006 1st Aerobatic Instruction given
2006 1st Stearman Instruction given
April 4, 2005 Certified Flight Instructor
July 3, 2004 Commercial Pilot License
May 27, 2003, Instrument Rating
January 20, 1996 Private Pilot License
July 1993 Joined Dayton Pilots’ Club
June 3, 1993 First Solo
March 2, 1993 First Flight Lesson. Dayton, Ohio.
March 1976 First Flight. Out of a corn field in Dorset, Vermont
TRAVEL:
India, Nepal, Bahamas, Honduras, Crete, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, France, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Iceland, Canada, Mexico, United States.
ALL of Outer Cape Cod, Elbigenalp, Salzburg, long train rides, the sky, Paleohora, Camel’s Hump, the South Tyrol, the amphitheater off Andros, Himachal Pradesh, and New York City.
PERSONAL:
Forty-four years old. Excellent health. INTP/J
Happily married for nineteen years.
Wife, Janet, shares passions and is an outstanding
Pediatric Physical Therapist and Department Manager at
the Children’s Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio
Three happy, healthy children. Two boys and a girl:
Galen 14, Ian 11, and Quinn 8
1992 to date
1990 to 1992
1992
1987 to 1990
1987
RECREATION: Aviation, boating, camping, skiing, archery, reading, guitar
Highlights To Date:
2007 to date Action Evaluation Committee Coordinator
2006 MVS Alumni Association and Class of 2006
Inaugural Outstanding Teacher Award
2005 to date Social Science Department Chair
2003 to 2005 ISAACS Social Science Committee Chair
1998 to 1999 Co-Designer, New 9th Grade Immersion
1998 Excellence in Leadership Conference
1997 Area Independent School Soccer Coach of the Year
1993 to 1997 Director of Summer Programs
1992 to 2000 American History Truth Projects
1992 to 1997 Head Coach, Girls Varsity Soccer
Core Courses Taught:
1998 to 2000 American Studies
1992 to date Advanced Placement United States History
1992 to date American History
1992 to 2000 American Government
Electives Taught:
2008 T.E.D.
2008 China: The Wild Wild West
2007 International Business
2007 to date Footsteps of the Buddha
2006 to date Myth: The Power of the Stories We Tell
2006 Philanthropy: The Way We Give
2004 to date Creating Minds, An Anatomy of Creativity
2003 Biography: Darwin, Einstein, and Freud
2003 Constitutional Law
2003 Contemporary Problems
1996 to date Science and Human Values
1996 World History: On-Line
1994 to 1995 Gender Studies
1993 to 1995 Senior Seminar: Violence in the Culture
1992 to 2002 Psychology: A Humanistic Approach
1992 to 2002 Macroeconomics
1992 to 2002 Microeconomics
Immersions Taught:
2008 India and Nepal Immersion
2007 Gifts of Wings (15-20 Hours Flight Time/Student)
2006 Gifts of Wings (15-20 Hours Flight Time/Student)
2005 9th Grade Immersion
2004 Gifts of Wings (10 Hours Flight Time/Student)
2003 Independent Immersion Supervisor
2002 9th Grade Immersion
2001 9th Grade Immersion
2000 New 9th Grade Immersion with To-Shin Do & Flight
1999 To-Shin Do
1998 Marine Ecology
1997 Ninjutsu
1996 Marine Ecology
1995 Gifts of Wings (0 Hours Flight Time/Student)
1994 9th Grade Immersion, Earth Science
1993 Gifts of Wings (5 Hours Flight Time/Student)
Academic Collaboration and Team Teaching With:
Sam Wagner (Upper School Division Head), Stephen K. Hayes (Buddhist Studies) Bryan Lakatos (Latin), Ashwi Birdi (Science), Ralph Suiter (Science), Bryan Czarnota (Science), Anne Griffith (Science), Henry Fisher (Math) Mary Whittemore (English), Kelley Katzner (English), Vincent Romeo (English)
Experiential Learning Collaboration and Team Teaching With:
Ashwi Birdi (Science), Richard Braithwaite (English), Rachel Moulton (English), Nicole LaSelle (Counseling), Jane Gorsky (Librarian), John Griffith (Division Head), Sam Wagner (Interim Division Head), Laura Mack (Division Head), Stephen K. Hayes (To-Shin Do, Nin Po, Mikkyo), James Norris (To-Shin Do), Henry Fisher (Math), Joy Barnett (Athletic Director), Gary Kretzler (Engineer and MVS Parent), Bryan Czarnota (Science), John Graetz (Math), Mary Heuser (Science)
Coaching Responsibilities:
2006 to date Assistant Coach, Girls Varsity Soccer
2004 Head Coach, 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Boys Soccer
1998 Head Coach, FC Dayton Girls U-15
1998 USSF State “E” Course and License
1997 Independent School Coach of the Year
1992 to 1997 Head Coach, Girls Varsity Soccer