Brandon made an amazing connection with my son that I haven’t seen with any of his other teachers-he worked twice as hard on his SAT prep as on any of his other projects.
—Tracy, Capitol Hill
About Brandon
Students tell me I’m a pretty enjoyable human being, and after a few years of doing this, I’ve begun to believe them.
I’m a summa cum laude graduate of the Barrett Honors College at Arizon State University with BAs in Religious Studies and History.  I’m the recipient of the National Merit Scholarship, a published writer, and a humanities teacher amongst the Seattle alternative education community.  I’m finishing a master’s degree in UW’s Social and Cultural Foundations of Education program.
In a more personable vein, I hail from Wisconsin, read constantly, and nurture foolishly optimistic hopes of leading a velvet revolution in American reading, math, and social studies education.
I’ve taught in UW’s Comparative History of Ideas Program and a gifted/talented program at Arizona State. I’ve been described as “a natural teacher.” I’ve earned nearly perfect scores on my SAT (800 Verbal, 790 Math) and GRE (730 Verbal, 800 Quant, 5.5 Writing), and am attempting to re-boot the test-prep industry, which seems hopelessly mired in the educational psychology of the 1940s.
My working motto is “many fingers, many pies.” Among other idiosyncratic pursuits, I’m forging a college-preparatory curriculum for high school humanities and social sciences, helping design a school building, writing a book (The Joy of the SAT: Test-Prep, Meet Brain Science), and designing a line of baby clothes printed with realistic dinosaurs. In graduate school, I’m trying to come to terms with the best ideas in education, past and present.
I’m also moderately obsessed with evolutionary and cognitive psychology, the origins of mass schooling, the social effects of technology, intercultural theories of child-rearing, religious philosophy, paleontology, and first-century history. I consider it a dull day if I haven’t scribbled down at least one potentially life-altering idea.
On top of all this, my wife and I are very enthusiastic parents to our three-year old son and (as of this writing) six-week old daughter. It’s so much harder than we ever thought anything could be. Any and all advice is very welcomed.
I make delicious, if basic, sushi, and enjoy the occasional game of Killer Uno: once you go Killer, you’ll never go back. I’ve given up all attempts to grow a beard… mostly.
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About Brandon
I’m a summa cum laude graduate of the Barrett Honors College at Arizon State University with BAs in Religious Studies and History.  I’m the recipient of the National Merit Scholarship, a published writer, and a humanities teacher at the Attic, a local alternative school.  I’m currently a student in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education program at the University of Washington.