Cory's teaching journey began in 2018 when the Inwood Academy for Leadership took a chance on an aspiring teacher who wanted to re-enter the world of education after a number of years away due to the difficulty of finding a full time position.

Since then, he has worked on creating fun, creative, and engaging curriculum that is obtainable to all different learning levels and styles. Utilizing critical thinking and deep analysis of primary sources as well as hands on activities to make history come alive.

Cory's primary interest, and experience, is in global history, specifically ancient.

He has worked on and developed a way to blend traditional global studies of cultures as Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome with the larger concept of "Big History" looking at how the earth has developed and effected that way humans and society has evolved, including early humans and their development.

Using the G.R.A.P.E.S. framework he outlines the high points in different societies to give students a strong background of different cultures to be built on in later years of schooling.

During Cory's time in high school he was inspired to pursue his dream of going into social studies education from one of his former teachers.

Mr. Frank Flynn's combination of energy, fun, knowledge, and a different/unique teaching styles proved that social studies could be fun, engaging and foster a creative mind.

Mr. Flynn also had a saying from William Faulkner that has stuck with Cory for the rest of his education and his career, and has been adapted into his classroom. "History is...not was."

That saying has been posted prominently in every classroom Cory has ever taught in beginning with his time student teaching in South Plainfield. All the way up to today.

The meaning of the saying itself, is, like most things related to ancient history, up for interpretation. The idea of history being a more living, ever evolving, field of study, however, is what keeps Cory's desire to have the most up to date information within the confines of his classroom to create the next generation of truly global citizens.