My name is Danny Armstrong, and I am uniquely qualified to help students who are experiencing academic and emotional challenges because I was one of those struggling students. I was so out of control in my freshman year of high school that I was sent to an alternative school for my sophomore and junior year. When that did not help, I returned to a public high school, but my struggles continued, and I dropped out of high school in my senior year.

 

In my late thirties, I had sufficiently healed the wounds of my past so that I was open to the epiphany of my life's calling. I was destined to become a high school teacher. I earned a GED, an Associate Degree Cum Laude, a Bachelor of Arts in English Cum Laude, a Single Subject Teaching Credential in English, and a Master's Degree in Education and Learning Cum Laude.  I have been teaching high school English and Theater for the past 16 years relishing in my ability to relate to and change the lives of struggling students that remind me of myself at that tenuous age. 

 

My strength as a teacher and an academic coach is that I understand my students. I have taught myself how to learn and how my fears and trauma inhibits that learning, and with passion, I present those truths to my students. One of the tenets of my success is the knowledge that we continuously tell students to do better, but we never teach them how to do better. I teach my students how to learn. We uncover the roadblocks to the academic success that they deeply desire, and we work with rigorous but gentle honesty to overcome those obstacles and create lifelong positive habits. 

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Check out my interview on The Pink Lemonade Stand podcast starting at marker 12:15