Vernon
- Rate R993
- Response 1h
R993/h
Double-degreed former special education district intern Teaches Social Studies k-12, VIRTUALLY!
Lesson location
- online
About Vernon
Noto Bene: Parents, Learners, and Students-
I am a 62 years young adult living with Aspergers Syndrome- high functioning. By design back in 1997, my work is 100% from virtual platforms. Born in Chicago, IL in 1959 to a mother who graduated as Registered Nurse from Tuskegee Institute ( AL) and a father who graduated with a BA in Communications ( radio, TV, film) after service in the US Army during the Korean Conflict who lived all their lives as persons "on the ASD 'spectrum', a college degree was the baseline expectation for myself and my older and younger siblings, graduates of Marquette University (PoliSci/Economics) and William Paterson University ( Communications ( radio, TV film), respectively.
By the winter break of my senior year in high school, I had received an early decision acceptance from Case WesternReserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to the June 1977 graduation ceremonies where I addressed my JFKHS cohort as two-Term Class president, salutatorian, National Merit Scholar, and for the first time in New Jersey history, one of three US Presidential Scholars honored in a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building where we met then-President James Earl Carter and received our solid brass US Presidential Scholar (US-PS) Medallions. Most states in 1977 only had one or two US-PS's.
I had been accepted by Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( and also a Rensselaer Medalist for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics), and Northwestern University (NU), my first choice school. Fun fact, my parents were married at Second Baptist Church in Evanston, right next door to (then) Marshall Fields&Co, now Target.
Yes, I digress, but always with a purpose. NU had informed me and my parents that they had no affirmative action program, only a COMMITMENT made by the University's Trustees to be racially diverse and inclusive of "minorities and women". My graduation, on-time in June 1981, was witnessed by parents, my siblings, relatives, and my then 81-year-old maternal grandmother Annie Mae Thompson Walker, a native of Greensboro, AL who had served as a teacher and administrator in the segregated Jim Crow era Negro schools of the 1920s and 1930s. Promises made were indeed promises kept.
Please also see my LinkedIn Profile to get fully up to date on my professional journey-to-date.
I live in the Pacific Standard Time Zone, not to be confused with "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits"! Yes, I have that stereotypical "cheesy teacher humor". Love it or not, I was born this way!) I have no single favorite age of learner, although I am biased in favor of Middle Schoolers ( my favorite years of being a student). My first paying private tutoring client was a 60-year old BIPOC female who had been a housekeeper all her life and wanted to earn her GED as one more item on her bucket list; my father was, as Lena Horne famously opined in her one-woman show when she was in her 60's, my marketing guru/publicist/ co-provider, etc. In our family meetings, Daddy always liked to remind us that we each had one vote-- but he had five votes-- he was our Chief Justice SCOTUS. Then as now, the Conservative(!) controlled everything.
As you can imagine, or read when my memoir, "One True Thing Always Leads to Another" is published, hopefully before "reality rears its ugly head" in the 2022 midterm election cycle here in the USA my relationship with the OG Slick Willie, an accomplished Forensics team leader in his secondary school heyday, was complicated. Consistent with basic magnetism, like objects repel, and their opposite sides attract. Larger and typically more powerful magnets can be almost hermetically sealed. So, on the last day of my tenure in my parents' brick two-story brownstone, I cried under the noise of a hot shower, my mother drove me to Newark International Airport to board my non-stop United Airlines flight to LAX-- and my Uncle Joe Mark Nickerson took his baby brother, my father, to tour the suburban New Jersey manse of then-former US President Richard Millhous Nickerson, who had recently become the second-most high profile client of Uncle Mark's nascent business venture, Executive Maintenance, Inc.- after the Seagrams's heir Edgar Miles Bronfman, Sr., his first client family. Meanwhile, on the Left Coast, I walked down the staircase of my commuter flight to Ontario Airport into the hot brown desert floor of the Inland Empire, home to its then major employer, Kaiser Aluminum. Yes, KaiserPermanente was its sole-source healthcare provider way back in the days when some American families lived, had children, raised them to adulthood, and died as Kaiser retirees in Kaiser-built homes.
And, just like that, (voila(!), Eureka(!), etc.) a sample of my mastery of English grammar and social studies directly linked to the US and World History timelines connected to your family's history -- if you become a multi-year client! [Okay, that last sentence was just milking the drama from the narrative, not an actual solicitation!]
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About the lesson
- All levels
- English
Languages in which the lesson is available :
English
All work samples are on the Google Classroom Platform and are copyrighted.
Teaching method: Step 1:must interview student and parent to Step 2: customize curriculum as needed to accommodate learning modalities
Philosophy: Every learner can learn anything they choose to or have to learn.
Target cohort: 18-24-year-olds ( mild to moderate and moderate to severe disabilities*) *-I loathe that term, but it is lingua franca in the pedagogic guild. (C) VernonNickersonSchoolcoach 2020 - 2022. All Rights Reserved.
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- R993
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- 5h: R4965
- 10h: R9930
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