J is for John Pearson

John Pearson was born just outside of Washington, DC, but moved to Texas as quickly as he could. Growing up with a passion for science, math, and calculator watches, he obtained engineering degrees and basketball (watching) accolades from Duke University and Texas A&M. His first job out of college was designing small solid-state heat pumps, where his cubicle simply was not big enough to contain him. When the engineering market went sour, he decided to try his hand as a teacher, and he has been a 3rd grade math teacher ever since.
When he's not teaching, he's reading, blogging, or making YouTube videos like "Darth Vader Explains the Pythagorean Theorem."
Learn Me Good was born of the baptism-by-fire nature of Pearson's first year as a teacher.



What are people saying?
"Wonderful, funny, insightful look into the crazy day-to-day experiences of teaching in the public school system. Vastly entertaining and hilarious-Mr.Pearson evokes the fascinating "characters"(students) that teachers have to put up with in the never boring world of teaching!"

"I had the pleasure of working with John (no I wasn't in the book...I was ripped off..j/k). I moved away from Dallas almost 2 years ago. When I was handed this book by one of our friends I just couldn't put it down. I am so thankful to have a true author out there that is telling it like it really is. Many people think that we just "babysit" the kids for 8 hours, get vacation time (and a lot of it) and don't endure much stress. Like my current principal says, "teachers endure so much stress during the 9 to 10 months that they do work, they DESERVE their summer break." Thanks, to John and this awesome book we now have given the world another side of teaching to look at and opening up the eyes of many "non-teachers" as to what really can happen in a day of the life of a teacher. Everyone should sit down and read this book, teacher or not! Be ready to laugh your butt off and step into the world of a true TEACHER!! I teach therefore I am...POOR!! AMEN!"