Education

Master of Education, Curriculum & Instructional Leadership
Vanderbilt University Peabody College, May 2011
Nashville, TN

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, May 2002
Terre Haute, IN

Experience

High School Science and Computer Science Teacher
8/2011 - Present
University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN

• Taught a variety of courses with my main focus on AP Physics and being the go-to faculty member for Computer Science independent studies

• AP Physics B, AP Physics 1 & 2 classroom teacher following the College Board standards for Advanced Placement, but designing a large portion of my own curriculum

• Recently restructured the AP Physics curriculum to include Natural Systems Modeling and built a website to be the permanent home of our resources (https://wilsonhubbell.github.io)

• Introduction to Computer Programming classroom/lab teacher focusing on the fundamentals of all programming languages and modeling for a purpose rather than just learning how to code

• History of Science classroom teacher encouraging students to recreate the most important experiments from history with a focus on what makes them powerful rather than memorizing dates and famous scientists

• Have taught other courses when needed, including Physics 1, Chemistry 1, Chemistry 2 and Digital Animation

• Academic advisor to approximately 10 students each year (sophomores, juniors and seniors)

• Faculty sponsor for over 20 independent studies on topics including making games in Python, developing an environmentalism-based social media platform, developing a multi-access key for species identification in our wetlands research area, wireless mechatronics and numerous advanced programming and physics topics

Fifth Grade Science Teacher
8/2004 - 5/2011
University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN

• Classroom teacher of introductory science topics such as the scientific method, fundamentals of measurement, designing and implementing experiments, geology, and human development

• Facilitated student-directed learning by having all members of the class create, select, research, and present the answer to their own scientific questions

• Was advisor to 16 students, guiding the students through the academic and emotional challenges of middle school

• Chaperoned the 5th grade on two annual overnight field trips: one to study the history of civil rights in Little Rock, AR and the other to study the natural world at Wesley Woods camp in Townsend, TN

Instructor – Programs for Talented Youth
2008, 2010, 2011, 2013
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

• Taught a two-week course on Programming to Model Reality where students found simple natural events and worked through the difficulty of creating a computational model of the event (summer of 2013)

• Taught a course called What Does Going Green Really Mean? The curriculum for this course was self-designed and was created to be changeable based on target age

• Helped students navigate the difficulty of media-saturated environmentalism and determine effectiveness of certain alleged environmental activities

• Taught three variations of this course to rising 6th graders (summer of 2010), 8th and 9th graders (winter of 2010), and rising 10th and 11th graders (summer of 2011)

• Taught a scenario-based course on Nuclear Energy where the students acted as mayor of a small town and had to make challenging municipal decisions based on competing scientific evidence. (2008)

Activities

• Awarded a $25K E. E. Ford Grant to develop curriculum for teaching computational thinking methods by mapping analog non-computer-based modelling onto computer models (https://tinyurl.com/y8ufwnym)

• Faculty sponsor and teacher for the Lower and Middle School Chess Club (which has 50+ kids annually) for the last 7 years

• Supervised and participated on a multiday backpacking trip in Pisgah, NC with Sophomores each of the last 6 years

• Faculty advisor to the Mock Trial team for the last 6 years

• Coached soccer, both boys and girls, at the middle school and elementary level

• Active faculty member of the Feminism Club for the past 4 years

• Member of the CORE Team for over 2 years, a faculty group who work to do early, non-disciplinary intervention on students who are potentially struggling with substance issues

• Faculty advisor to a drone flight school (2016)

• Designer and leader of a 21st Century Naturalist camp (2013)

• Guest educator for a two-week The Science of Sound music camp at W.O. Smith Music School (2012)

• Led the development of the 7th grade Beyond Edgehill Program, connecting kids to the systems that sustain them and their school

• Part of the first cohort of USNs Cultural Dialogue Group to increase cultural competency (2012)

• Served as a First Lego League Competition Team Coach for 2 years

• Supervised 7th and 8th graders on an Adventure Treks outdoor adventure trip to northern California for 2 weeks (summer of 2006)

• Supervised 5th graders on an outdoor adventure and ecology trip near Dubois, WY in the (summer of 2006)

Committees

• Chair of a committee to explore a “Nashville-based Semester School” as auxiliary or compliment to a USN education (2018)

• Chaired a committee on the “Future of a USN Education,” generating a storehouse for innovative system ideas in the High School (2017)

• Served on a committee to examine the “philosophy and purpose of assessment and grading at USN” and presented our findings (2016)

• Developed, implemented, and analyzed a student survey on the role of gender in academic, athletic, and co-curricular programs (2015)

• Served on a two-year long committee to design and implement a modern model of USN’s curriculum

• Presented our committee findings on “how to expand place-based education at USN” (2012)

• Chaired a committee to tackle issues of kids’ after school options and safety (2007)

• Served on three different environmental sustainability committees (Committee Chair, 2006)

Continuing Education

• National Science Teachers Association National Conference, Nashville, TN (2016), Indianapolis, IN (2012), St. Louis, MO (2007)

• White Privilege Conference, Philadelphia, PA (2016)

• AP Physics Conference on the release of the new AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2 curriculum, Asheville, NC (2014)

• AP Physics Training Conference (College Board sanctioned), Oak Ridge, TN (2011)

• National Energy Education Development (NEED) workshop, Murfreesboro, TN (2010)

• Tennessee Environmental Educators Association (TEEA) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN (2009)

• Campus-Community Partnerships for Sustainability Conference, Berea, KY (2006)

• Facing the Future Global Issues and Environmental Sustainability Summer Institute, Meriden, NH (2006)

• Convention committee member for the NSTA Southern Regional Conference, Nashville, TN (2005)

• First US Conference on Peak Oil and Sustainability Solutions, Yellow Springs, OH (2004)

• New Independent School Teacher Training, Henry Horton State Park, TN (2004)

• American Society for Engineering Educators (ASEE) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN (2003)

• Vanderbilt Service-Learning Graduate Fellows Seminar, Nashville, TN (2003)