Shane Phipps is a teacher and writer from Indianapolis. He teaches U.S. History at Decatur Middle School where he also serves as the Social Studies Department Chair. He holds a bachelors degree in Social Studies education from Indiana University and a Masters in Education from Indiana Wesleyan University. He is the author of the young adult historical fiction, The Carter Journals: Time Travels in Early U.S. History (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2015). He is currently researching and writing his second book, a sequel to his first. I also write a weekly column about education for the Anderson Herald Bulletin.