Timothy O’Keefe recently retired from teaching second and third graders for twenty-four years, at the Center for Inquiry in Columbia, SC. Tim’s career as a classroom teacher has been well documented across three decades and a diverse range of school communities. Tim is a featured teacher in five professional books published by Heinemann and the National Council of Teachers of English and a range of professional videos by the Annenberg Foundation, PBS, NCTE, Heinemann, and Scholastic. Tim is in the process of writing middle grades and new adult novels.