IT IS TIME FOR CLASSROOM INTRODUCTIONS! Hi everyone! Welcome to my LeadSite. I'm Niles, and I feel blessed to be a teacher. I hope to share with you all some of the many experiences I've had over my 15+ years of teaching. Check out "ClassSnaps" in the tabs at left. You can also follow my blog. My teaching philosophy is the view that I want to challenge your smartphone.  I try my hardest to make classes interesting enough that students forget to look at their phones. While that's the goal, I'm not always successful with it--of course. But this view inspires the best lessons. Imagine a classroom in which the teacher never has to say, "Could you please put your phone away?" Imagine, instead, a classroom in which a teacher has planned his or her activities in such a way that students occasionally forget they even have a phone.  That's the classroom you can find me in. Simply, I'm not just a teacher. I'm an experience designer.