James Weiner

While in the military James earned a masters degree in disaster management, which he occasionally brings into his classes through modelling and what-if scenarios.

As an instructor in the Air Force James realized that his true passion is teaching. So, after leaving the military he earned a second masters degree in education and began teaching in high schools and community colleges in Colorado where he lives.

James’ teaching experience has been quite varied, including in a rural school where students had to balance schoolwork with farm work and at a charter school north of Denver where a majority of the student body speak Spanish as a first language. Drawing on his diverse educational and occupational background in humanities and quantitative science, James has taught everything from history to the physical sciences, geography, civics, mathematics and english language arts to groups ranging from adult learners to grade schoolers.

In his own words, “It is amazing how much an auditorium of fighter pilots can resemble a kindergarten class when needing to wrangle attention to a task.”