About tjleone.comI'm TJ Leone. After several years in the educational software business, I decided to become a full time Montessori teacher. I now teach children aged 6 to 9 at Chiaravalle Montessori School in Evanston, Illinois. Since my primary focus is no longer on my business, I decided to rename my site from LeoneLearningSystems.com to tjleone.com. This site is basically a copy of the old one, at least until the next redesign. I'm also leaving the old site in place until the summer of 2009 to give folks a chance to find the new site and to update links and bookmarks. Mission StatementTo learn all I can about what helps kids develop healthy relationships with the people, objects and ideas they find in learning environments, to support that development and to share what I learn. About meI was educated at the City College of New York (BA in Math and MS in Computer Science) and at Northwestern (a couple of years of going back and forth between graduate programs in Computer Science and Learning Sciences). The first job I ever loved was the three years I spent as a Montessori teacher. After that, I spent several years as a computer programmer and analyst in industry and academia. From 1997 to 2003 I worked as an educational software developer at Northwestern and eventually picked up part-time work as a teacher for Northwestern's Center for Talent Development. Now, in my one-person corporation, I divide my work between teaching/tutoring, developing curriculum, writing, and developing software. My favorite things include spending time with my wife Dolores, hanging out with my two daughters and my friends, teaching, computer programming, meditation, and running. Here are Dolores and I finishing our first race, the Chicago marathon, on October 12, 2003. Everybody who finished got a medal. |
