Awakening A Hunger To Learn - The Personal Creed Project

John Creger is an award winning veteran English teacher and classroom researcher at American High School in Fremont CA, where he continually seeks new ways to engage his students more deeply in learning. His urge for depth stems from dissatisfaction with shallow learning in his own high school years--from which he cannot recall one conversation with a teacher that mattered to him. In his late 20s he found proof of what he had felt all along, that this is no shallow universe. With renewed purpose, he went on to publish writings in five languages on three continents, and graduated with a new mission--to work with teenagers in the high school classroom.

Throughout his classroom career John has helped his students find satisfying connections to the universe within and beyond themselves as they gain skills reading, writing, thinking, and conversing. John has synthesized a Model of Deepened Learning which is met by universal passion from students and teachers who encounter his Personal Creed Project, developed with sophomores early in his career. It is now being adapted in schools and colleges across North America.

In honor of the Personal Creed Project, John was the 2001 recipient of the James Moffett Memorial Award for Teacher Research. He's been honored by former students in six editions of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, with San Jose State University’s Dorothy Wright Award for Outstanding High School Teachers, by National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teachers Award and colleagues twice nominated him for Teacher of the Year. He was a featured speaker at AEPL’s June 2011 conference and recently gave a keynote at the Urantia Fellowship’s International Conference. Author of The Personal Creed Project and a New Vision of Learning (Heinemann 2004), he hosts Englishcompanion.ning.com.