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Thing 01: Getting Started

I'm Alex Perry. I am in my 7th year as a Special Education/Mathematics teacher in the district. I currently work at the Leadership Academy. A coworker told me about this program and all of the cool things that it offered, so I decided to check it out. I was drawn to the freedom of choosing topics of interest that Cool Tools allows. I'm looking forward to learning some new things that I can use in my practices.

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