Taught 14 years in the elementary classroom using project-based learning and global projects. He has taken students to Taiwan on two occasions. He manages two long-running Internet projects: The Monster Project and The Landmark Games. He is on the board of the Kidlink Association, an international group providing free projects for elementary and middle school classes around the world. He serves on the National Geographic steering committee for the Geo-Educators program and is a trainer-mentor for the National Geographic Educator Certification program. He recently co-chaired Radford University’s first Global Education Conference.