Adam Richards: 7th-12th Social Studies Teacher / High School Business Education Teacher / Model United Nations advisor [email protected] / 231-492-2458
Ya sas!
The 2023-24 school year is my 15th on Beaver Island and my 20th year overall. I started off teaching in an alternative school in the Grand Rapids area and I loved it to death. The school died so I guess that I loved it to the end. The Took side overtook the Baggins side and my family moved to Beaver Island mid-August 2009. It was exciting and (terrifying). Now it is just home. Home can't be everywhere that the heart is, but if your heart and your sweat are there, there's a really good chance that that is home. Beaver Island is mos-def my home, so I guess that I am a stay-at-home dad.
I am the only social studies teacher for the 7th- through 12th-grade students, and that means that I get it all over the course of a two-year rotation. This year I am teaching:
Middle School U.S. History,
High School U.S. History,
High School World History, and
Tuning Into Culture (a new social studies elective in which students will make radio shows).
Additionally, I teach:
Business Management (in which we also run a printing business), and
in our Model United Nations club, we work on international relations, policy-making, negotiation, and debate.
Before I give an endless introduction to the meat and bones of this welcome page and turn it into something like an unendurably-long recipe prelude, here's what you should know:
You're not one of my students. If you were, there'd be no reason to read this. They come here for the Resources page; so,
My students create a lot and do a lot and you will find records of some of those things, past and current, on the Student Work and Pictures pages. Please peruse them!
Finally, though you are not one of my students, you could be a teacher to me, or them, or all of us. If there is anything at all interesting about you (there absolutely is) -- your career, your travels, your childhood, your crashes and ascensions -- please email or call me. I'd love to bring you into our learning about the world in some way.