About Mr. Crockett
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Beliefs
Personal Background
Mr. Crockett was born and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. As a first-generation college student, he earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014, where he majored in Comparative Literature and Biology, minored in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and completed the UNC Baccalaureate Education in Science and Teaching program to earn his initial teacher license. In 2019, he earned his M.S. in Biological Sciences from Clemson University, and in 2021, earned a Graduate Certificate in School Leadership through Appalachian State University to obtain principal licensure. He is now back in graduate school for a third time at UNC Wilmington to earn his curriculum and instruction specialist licensure, which he expects to complete by 2023. As a comparative literature student, his major languages were Latin and English, and to a much lesser extent Italian and French. He focused on classical, medieval, and early modern literature and art, particularly classical reception studies, and he completed numerous research projects culminating in conference presentations on Cicero, Vergil, Petrarch, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Proust, Alice Walker, and Julie Otsuka. Topics ranged from the interrelations of text and image, relationships with the natural world, cosmopolitanism, marginality, and temporality.
As a biology student, he completed two summer fellowships of laboratory assistance and biology curriculum development with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the areas of molecular biology and immunology. He also worked in the Research Labs of Archaeology, the Genomic Sciences Greenhouses, and the Global Research Institute studying climate change. His graduate coursework and interests are wide-ranging from the molecular and cellular levels to the organismal and ecological levels of biology. Licensure Mr. Crockett holds a North Carolina Professional Educator's License in the following areas:
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Teaching
Mr. Crockett came to Southern Lee High School in 2014, and he is a proud Cavalier! Since coming to Southern Lee, he has...
At Southern Lee, Mr. Crockett primarily teaches Biology (including AP Biology, Honors Biology, and general Biology, including SIOP and EC-inclusion courses), and he has rekindled a new Latin program at the school, beginning with Latin I in the 2021-2022 school year and additional levels in future years. He has additionally taught AP Environmental Science, Zoology and Honors Zoology (as the original course developer), Physical Science, the AVID/College Readiness elective course, and he has been the course coordinator for the Peer Tutoring. He also coaches the school's Science Olympiad and Quiz Bowl teams. Since 2019, he has also been a Biology Instructor at Fayetteville Technical Community College, where he teaches BIO 110 Principles of Biology, BIO 111 General Biology I, BIO 163 Basic Anatomy and Physiology, BIO 168 Anatomy and Physiology I, and BIO 169 Anatomy and Physiology II. |
Leadership and Research
As a teacher-leader, Mr. Crockett has served as Chair of the School Improvement Team (2017-2018 and 2019-2022), Academically-Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Lead Contact, facilitator of the Honors/Advanced Placement PLC, facilitator of the Biology PLC, and a Literacy Leader. He has also served on the school- and district-level Curriculum and Instruction Committees, the AVID Site Team, the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) team, and the district-level AIG Advisory Council. He frequently leads and co-leads professional development for colleagues through several of these committees. During the 2021-2022 school year, he additionally serves on the Lee County Superintendent Bryan's Advisory Council and on North Carolina Superintendent Truitt's Teacher Leadership Council. He has presented on teaching literacy in zoology courses at the North Carolina Science Teachers Association 2016 conference, and his article "Long-form Science: Teaching with Extended Texts" appeared in The Science Teacher, published by the National Science Teachers Association in 2017. He presented on re-designing inquiry-based zoology courses at the 2018 NSTA Charlotte Area Conference, and he presented with his administrators on using EVAAS data to guide classroom instruction at the 2019 SAS EVAAS Exploration Summit. He and two other teachers are currently working on a manuscript positioning zoology and the importance of understanding animal diversity in the context of the history of high school biology curricula. |