Experience:  Mr. Hurst has taught junior high math at Saints Peter and Paul School for the past thirty-one years.    

Education:  University of Missouri - St. Louis and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

Teaching Philosophy:  I believe that my role in educating students is not just to teach them Math, but to help them become lifelong learners and to prepare each student academically, intellectually, and socially - so they will have success in the real world

Years of Experience:  33

Teaching Honors:

• Named in Who's Who of American Teachers
• Earned Highly Qualified Status from the Illinois Educators' System

Professional Development:  

• Best Reading Practices - Planning and Assesment
• Transform Learning with Smartboards
• Integrating the Smartboard in the Classroom
• Amazing Web 2.0 Tools
• Seeking Spiritual Balance
• Jesus Christ - Present in the Community, Word, Priest, and Eucharist 
• Meditative Prayer - 1.5 hours
• Spirituality of a Teacher - 1.5 hour
• Diocesan Institute Training-August 2011
• Boys Town Social Skills Training-August 2011