Robert Ryshke is the Executive Director of the Center for Teaching at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, GA.  He has been in that position for twelve years.   The Center for Teaching designs and implements professional development programs for faculty at Westminster, Drew Charter School, and other Atlanta area schools.  Prior to being in Atlanta, he was the Head of School at The Meadows School in Las Vegas, NV.   The Meadows School is a preK-12 grade school of 925 students.  His career in education spans 40 years, having started as a science teacher at the Trinity School in New York City in 1979.  He worked as a science teacher at Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts, and then became the Head of the Science Department and Director of Studies at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles.  During the first 20 years of his teaching career he taught biology, chemistry, AP Biology and AP Chemistry.  For ten years he served as division director at Moses Brown School, Heritage Hall, and North Shore Country Day School.  Mr. Ryshke received his undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his Masters of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He completed his coursework for a Masters of Science Education degree at Teachers College, Columbia University before starting his teaching career at Trinity School.  As part of his work at the Center for Teaching, Mr. Ryshke writes his own blog at http://rryshke.org is an active Twitter user at @centerteach, and writes a guest blog for Southern Teachers’ Desk.  He is married to Renee LeStrange, a psychotherapist, and has a daughter, Linnea, will be a freshman at Pratt Institute in the fall.  He lives with his family in Mableton, GA.