User:Bromley

Michael L. Bromley

Owner, creator of School4Schools.wiki

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Bromley c.v.

Current

• Creator of the Teacher Lesson Planner and Student Content Enhancement & Study Guide Wiki
• Founder & President, School4Schools Foundation, a public charitable corporation dedicated to building student academic success
• Founder & President, School4Schools.com LLC & the A+ Club, 2012 to present. Academic support service for secondary and college students, Arlington, Virginia.
  • Created and operate innovative academic coaching, mentoring, and tutoring program that engages students in academic problem solving and goal setting and empowers parental oversight.
  • Developed and apply expertise on procrastination and Attention Deficit (ADD/ADHD), their causes, effects, and working strategies to help students overcome them.
  • A+ Club name and mission derived from an after-school academic intervention created for a group of low-performing 10th grade World History students while teaching high school.
    • Participating students earned dramatically higher grades in all their classes.
    • the GPA of the entire 10th grade class rose as result of this program’s impact on about 15 students.
    • Students proudly named the after-school gatherings, “The A+ Club.”
    • Publish the Student Success Podcast and Blog, 2012 to present, discussing strategies for student academic improvement and parent and teacher help.
  • The A+ Club has served over 1500 students since 2012, maintains a 95% client retention rate month-to-month, and has earned enormous good will from students, parents and teachers.

Teaching Experience

• Teacher, Arlington Community Learning, Arlington County Public Schools, 2012 to present
  • Teach “Small Business Startup,” “Creating a Business & Marketing Plan,” “How to Beat Procrastination,” “SAT Verbal Prep” and "Englich Grammar" courses
  • Assist and empower entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their own businesses.
  • Developed “Procrastination” class which is designed to help those struggling with deferral and delay.
  • Developed Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric class for Arlington Community Learning

• Social Studies Teacher, Archbishop Carroll High School, Washington, DC, 2005-2012
  • Taught U.S. and AP US History, US and AP US Government, World History, Sociology and DC History.
  • Developed a classroom Social Studies Handbook to empower and align student learning with existing standards and resources and to increase student engagement.
  • Developed unique approach for student-based historical questioning that created a platform for student accomplishment at all cognitive levels.
  • Led Social Studies Department as Chair, 2009-2011. In this role reconstructed an outdated curriculum with current historiography and academic approaches and advised Department staff on best teaching practices for student engagement and higher order learning in the Social Studies.
  • Proudest teaching accomplishment came when students said, “I get it now!”

• Social Studies Teacher, Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, MD, 2005
  • Worked as part time substitute in Montgomery County, Maryland while conducting historical research and was invited for position as long-term substitute for the Spring 2005 semester.
  • Honored as a “Most Influential Teacher” for the “Top 5%” student dinner, Spring 2005, marking the first time a substitute teacher had ever received this honor.

 Author and Historian

Books

• William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency, 1909-1913, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, 2003.
  • Distributed nationally and featured in university libraries nationwide.
  • Cited and celebrated in White House Historical Society Christmas Ornament series.
  • Bromley awarded certificate of thanks by the White House Transportation Agency, a U.S. Army unit, for documenting the unit's origins
  • as result of the book, Taft's White Model M was placed in the Historic Vehicles Register

• Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, 2002.
  • Book and author featured in Modern Marvels “Presidential Movers” episode, 2004.

Papers & Articles

• Presented at various conferences of political science, U.S. and automotive history.
• Contributor to the finest periodicals in automotive history, Automobile Quarterly and The Review of the Society of Automotive Historians.

Media Appearances & Other Historical Work

• Featured in Historic Vehicle Association celebration of the first White House automobile on the National Mall, April 2016 and in accompanying short film, “THIS CAR MATTERS: President Taft's 1909 White Steam Car”.
  • Developed Unit history for White House Transportation Agency, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C. and was honored to present the keynote speech at the Unit centennial celebration.
  • Consultant to and appeared in various History Channel, TLC, and Discovery Channel documentaries, 2003 to 2006.

Business Experience

• Founder &
• Founder & President, School4Schools.com LLC, for-profit education service, 2012 to present.
• Founder & President, American Merchants, Inc., $15 mm sales, distribution and market development of U.S. consumer products in Brazil and Paraguay, 1987-1996.

Education

• M.A. U.S. History candidate, Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006
• B.A. Writing, 1986, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.
• American Field Service, 1981-1982, Tournai, Belgium.
• Graduate, 1981, Walter Johnson High School, Bethesda, Maryland.

Volunteer

• Founder, School4Schools Foundation, dedicating to building student success, 2021 to present
• Agents of Positive Change, Lower Johnsonville, Monrovia, Liberia, consultant and partner, 2019 to present
• Bu-Gata and Buckingham Youth Brigade, Advisory Board, 2016-2017
• Ira Kaye Memorial Scholarship, 2009-2011
• Society of Automotive Historians, Board of Directors, 2000-2004

Languages

• Spanish, French & some Portuguese. Conversational fluency.