This episode features local magician and science teacher Dr. Vince Mancuso. The middle school science teacher shares with us his passion for teaching, magic, family and learning.

Dr. Mancuso has a website called Magic Club Academy where students and teachers can gain resources to foster the art of magic in our youth. He is proficient at many aspects of magic.

Vince Mancuso, Ed.D., has been a middle school science teacher for 20 years. His research focuses on discrepant event phenomena in the science classroom and inquiry-based reform, specifically the development of inquiry-grounded curriculum and effective inquiry practices that enrich traditional classrooms. He developed and shaped Phenomena-Driven Inquiry and the POQIE model through fifteen years of extensive research and field-testing that began with his Master’s work, carried through his doctoral studies, and continued through several years of post-doctoral action research.

He can be contacted through email at either [email protected] or [email protected] and can be followed on Twitter @discrepantevent.