Introduction
Chip Mosher (born in Chillecothe, Ohio) is a poet, high school teacher and newspaper columnist who writes about education and history.
Early life
At 15, Mosher, who grew up in Northeastern Ohio, spent the 10th grade in a boys' juvenile hall. He graduated in 1965 from Salem High School. In 1969, he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He attended a master's program at Duke Divinity School from 1969-1972, and he earned a master’s in education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998.
Career
Mosher was a volunteer teacher in Thessaloniki, Greece from 1972-1974. In 1988, he started teaching history at a high-risk school within the Clark County School District in Las Vegas.
Since 2005, he has written a weekly column titled "Socrates in Sodom" for Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative newsweekly. The tag line at the end of his column states that he is "a simple classroom teacher." He also writes a monthly almanac for CityLife.
As a teacher who writes about the school district he works for, the opinions in his column have been controversial. He is regularly interviewed by newspapers about education issues.
In 2005, he released a CD of poems titled America, Please.
Awards
In 2011, Mosher received a Nobel Educator of Distinction Award for "excellence in teaching" from the National Society of High School Scholars.
In 2008, he received a first-place journalism award from the Nevada Press Association for his CityLife education column.
In 2004, he was awarded Honorable Mention for a 2005 Nevada Arts Council fellowship.