• I am excited about my ninth year at Wydown and look forward to working with all of our 8-East students in Science! This will be a new adventure for me, and will be the second time I am teaching 8th Grade for the entire year.   

    At Wydown, besides delving into all things Science, I am the Camp Director for 6th Grade Camp, one of the WEB Coordinators (helping train and support 8th grade leaders to guide incoming 6th graders in their transition), and a sponsor of the Wydown student newsmagazine, The Y!

    I have (already) been teaching for 23 years now--eight years at Wydown, four years at Parkway West Middle and, prior to that, 11 years teaching many different grade levels at Henry Elementary in Parkway. I love to learn and am excited to learn alongside the students at Wydown.

    I have an amazing wife, Laura (she works at the St. Louis Zoo), and we have two daughters—one a first-year student at Kansas City Art Institute and one heading into Senior Year at Webster University—and I love to hang out with them when I am not at school, or working with students. My wife and I met twenty-nine years ago at the Cincinnati Zoo and have made it our mission to “collect” zoos ever since. We usually collect a few new zoos every year, and have now visited over 175 zoos and aquariums in North America.

    So, I love to talk about animals, zoos, nature, Science, books, reading, writing, being outdoors, sports, running, creating art, and so much more. I love hearing the stories of students because I learn so much from them every day!
Mr. Chisholm