"I don't have high expectations, I have HIGH SCHOOL expectations"

 

My name is Mr. Wendland.  This is my 18th year of teaching at Walnut High School, 4 as the technology instructor.  I am a graduate of WHS (1995) and am very grateful to be apart of such a wonderful learning community.  I graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a B.A. in Mathematics in 2000.  In 2004, I received my Master's Degree in Education from the University of La Verne.  I did my student teaching at Claremont High School and taught at West Covina High School prior to joining Walnut.

Before becoming a teacher, I was a football coach here at Walnut for 6 years.  I also worked as a supervisor at UPS.  I learned a lot from those two jobs and wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

I am married to a wonderful woman (my high school sweetheart), who happens to be a Director at our school district. We have two beautiful children together, a girl and a boy.

I use a lot of the strategies from the book Fish!.  Namely;