"I see remarkable things. The future seems dim sometimes - it just looks like the world's never going to get to be better - but if I have to judge by what's happening at Gilman, it's going to get a lot better." //

Andre Jones is a LEGENDARY middle school geography teacher at Gilman. He spent 33 years teaching in Anne Arundel County public schools before coming to Gilman in 2007. He is retiring at the end of the 2020-21 school year. //

On Episode #54 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Andre talk about Andre's retirement from Gilman, how Andre found Gilman, teaching geography, the teacher who made the biggest impact on Andre, Gilman's mission, global overpopulation, competing with China, what's unique about the US, the Moderna vaccine, focusing on the geography of the Eastern Hemisphere, Andre's international journeys, homelessness in the US versus Africa, traveling to the border of the US and Mexico, the Pacific Northwest, and Andre's book recommendations: 'Company Man' (1992) by Brent Wade and 'Exit the Rainmaker' (1989) by Jonathan Coleman. //

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Many thanks to the all-powerful Cesare Ciccanti for all of his efforts on podcast production. //