After retiring as a NASA Aerospace Engineer, I have enjoyed a fifteen year encore career teaching math in a five star rated blue ribbon high school in New York City. Although teaching has been a departure from my engineering career, it has been extremely rewarding. For four consecutive years, I have attained a state rating as a "highly effective teacher" of Common Core Algebra I.

In addition to teaching six classes each day, teachers in our high school are required to tutor students on a...