Taos Charter School

This is Rich Greywolf’s fourth year as the K-8 enhancement/enrichment teacher at Taos Charter School. Rich also volunteers assistance with the school yearbook, grant writing, and technology consultation, as well as teaches First Aid/CPR certification for school staff and students. Rich holds a New Mexico administrative license and Level III teaching licenses for K-12 SPED, elementary education, and middle school, with endorsements for Language Arts, Social Studies, TESOL, and PE. Rich loves his current teaching position at Taos Charter School and enjoys the challenge of orchestrating a creative learning experience for TCS students.

Rich has seventeen years experience working with children in a number of capacities, including time spent with Boys and Girls Clubs, children’s theater, at-risk youth, Outward Bound Expeditionary Learning, and diverse populations on the Cherokee and Navajo Reservations. Rich began his formal teaching career at the Juvenile Detention Center in Swanannoa, NC, working with incarcerated youth, then for three years he taught the core classes of LA and SS, plus provided instruction in art, computer science, PE, character development, and emotional counseling at a school-within-a-school in a middle school, where he used drama, art, yoga and other therapeutic/diverse teaching techniques to reach reluctant students. From there, Rich moved on to a position at Mountain Discovery Charter School, an Outward Bound school of expeditionary learning on the edge of the Cherokee Reservation, where in addition to teaching SS, LA, computer technology, sex ed, PE, and character development for 4-8th grades, he led in-school trainings for staff on differentiated instruction, writing, technology, and CPR/First Aid. Next, Rich moved to Crownpoint, where he taught K-12 gifted students, elementary SPED, fifth grade, and second grade students in Crownpoint, plus taught multi-grades during the Crownpoint summer session. At Crownpoint Elementary, Rich served as Head Teacher, conducted in-service First Aid/ CPR trainings for staff, and acted as the tech advisor for the elementary school.

Outside of school, Rich savors time with his family and relishes any opportunity to showcase his many theatrical talents on stage. This summer, Rich directed and played the part of Falstaff in Teatro Serpiente’s production of the Merry Wives of Windsor.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” ~Dan Rather