Frank Thoms

More than ten years ago, after forty years as a teacher and twelve as a consultant and keynote speaker, Frank Thoms became a writer. He’s published four books: Teaching from the Middle of the Room: Inviting Students to Learn with Stetson Press, (2010), and three books with Rowman & Littlefield, Teaching That Matters: Engaging Minds, Improving Schools (2015); Exciting Classrooms: Practical Information to Ensure Student Success (2015); and Listening is Learning: Conversations between 20th and 21st Century Teachers (2019). He spent the majority of his teaching career with eighth graders in public and private schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, coaching soccer and hockey and serving as a timer for a youth ski program. For the past eight years, he has lived with his wife in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he continues to write, mentors university students, and serves as a member of the faculty, and Ambassador-at-Large for the San Miguel Writers’ Conference.