Gary Shiffman

After graduating from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a BA in political

science, Gary Shiffman taught elementary and middle school in New York City and Maalot,

Israel. Well chastened, he attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, where he

studied political theory. He then taught for eight years at the University of California, San Diego.

Chastened again, he became a high school teacher in 2002, when his current partner and then

department chair hired him to teach history at Newton North High School in Massachusetts.

Four years later he became Social Studies Curriculum Coordinator at nearby Brookline High

School, where he teaches one class and supervises and evaluates teachers. He co-founded

4QM Teaching in 2017. You can find out more about 4QM Teaching at our website,

www.4qmteaching.net.