David Greene

David Greene is a former 38-year Social Studies teacher and mentor at Adlai Stevenson High School in the Bronx, Woodlands HS in Greenburgh and Scarsdale HS. He coached football at all three schools and after retiring from teaching continued to coach at Ardsley HS for 6 more years. After finally “graduating” from High School …he supervised and taught new teachers while working for Fordham University. He was also a member of WiSE Services, assisting high schools create individualized experiential learning programs to help students to learn the nonacademic life skills necessary to succeed in life after high school. He has published two books, DOING THE RIGHT THING: A Teacher Speaks and He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times. His blogs have appeared in Education Weekly, US News and World Report, the Washington Post and the New York Times. He has also appeared on radio, local TV, and a TV documentary entitled, The Growing Movement Against Teach For America. Besides the time he spends with Grandpas United, he is presently co-chair of Braver Angels Westchester. Braver Angels is a bipartisan network of everyday citizens whose vision it is to reunite America and reduce polarization. He is also a photographer whose work has been featured at several local galleries, …and of course, he and his wife of 47 years have two grandsons, 4 ¾ and 2 ¼.