Scott Stickney

About Scott Stickney

At this point in my life, I would prove to be quite a conundrum. I am a bow-tie brandishing, beekeeping academic who raises chickens and racing pigeons who would rather be teaching Environmental Studies through literature while hiking the Appalachian Trail or teaching pioneering skills while retracing the route of Lewis & Clark in a canoe from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean, or teaching Latin Literature and Roman Studies in situ somewhere in Europe. I am a paradox - an educator who loves teaching, but dislikes the confines of the traditional classroom. What I need is change. Not only that, I need to affect change. Both drive me to learn more, create more and achieve more in my work. I am flexible and a bit quixotic in nature as I currently strive to make things better in the field of education, a setting that is not always flexible nor quixotic. I am not easily defined because I have an adversity to formalism, have the ability to comprehensively think laterally in a vertical-thinking profession and share a different aesthetic perception to empower students, teachers and administrators and transform the way education works.

Experience

1. Principal Lesson Designer Founder

   Hampton High School

   Jan 2018 — Present · Butler, PA

   With 20+ years experience in education, as Founder and Principal Lesson Designer of the educational consulting firm punctuat-ed, I specialize in helping teachers, departments and schools, design Interdisciplinary, Interactive, Inquiry-Based lessons and units for all grades and disciplines. Focusing on creating educational experiences with added emphasis, I assist teachers in highlighting topics of major importance for students, establishing a culture of inquiry in classrooms, drawing attention to material that follows in sequencing, completing a cycle or series of events in curriculum and linking independent thoughts that are related in lessons.

Education

• Kent State University

  Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

  1998 — 1999

• Duquesne University

  Bachelor's degree

  1989 — 1992

• University at Buffalo

  Post-Graduate Certificate

  2012 — 2015

• Villanova University

  Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics

  1993 — 1994

• Duquesne University

  Master of Education - MEd

  1997 — 1998

• University of Florida

  ABD

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Differentiated Instruction
• Leadership
• Staff Development
• Public Speaking
• Project-Based Learning
• Curriculum Development
• Management
• Google Apps, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Classroom
• Teaching
• Microsoft Office, Word, Powerpoint, Excel