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Phone: 617-522-1841 x103

Rev. Dr. Michael Dixon – Michael was born in Chicago, IL and graduated from Morgan Park HS.  He received his PhD in Education: Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College in 2002.  He is a 1988 Physics graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has a Master of Divinity with a concentration in Christian Education from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. 

He taught AP Physics and Calculus full-time at the Jeremiah E. Burke HS from 1999-2003, and was one of 18 teachers throughout the US selected to receive the 2002 Siemens Award for Excellence in AP Teaching, sponsored by Siemens and the College Board.  He served as an assistant professor at Gordon College from 2003-2005, a private liberal arts college in Wenham, Massachusetts. He has also worked as an instructor for the MITE²s (Minority Introduction to Engineering and Entrepreneurship) at MIT and the College Bound Program at Boston College.

He currently implements his accelerated math and science curriculum at Parkside Christian Academy, a K-8 private school in Boston, MA.  With over 19 years of teaching experience in math and science, he specializes in high academic achievement for minorities and inner-city youth in math and science, research he has presented at the American Educational Research Association national conference.  He loves science fiction, especially Dr. Who and Star Trek, and spending time with his wife and 5 boys.