More time for teaching. A clearer plan for Grades 3–5.

About Ryan Glenn

I’m Ryan Glenn, the educator, published lesson contributor, and creator behind Glenn School Resources™. Since beginning my work in education in 2001, I’ve learned to value the details that help a lesson work: a clear purpose, understandable directions, and room to respond to the students in front of you. My teaching experience includes Grades 3–5 face-to-face instructional classrooms, Grades 2–5 virtual instruction, K–5 physical education, summer reading learning programs, and Grades 3–5 alternative education. My broader experience also includes behavior intervention, student support, and school leadership. In the 2022–2023 school year, I began piloting an alternative education program for fifth-grade students. As the program grew, my teaching role expanded to serve students in Grades 3–5.

I contributed the Grade 5 coordinate-plane activity Battle Ship Using Grid Paper to Illustrative Mathematics, where the published task credits my submission.

From 2020–2022, I participated in data science research and curriculum co-design with Clemson University and the University of Georgia. Working alongside the research team, our group of elementary educators developed and implemented data science lessons, reported classroom findings, and refined the lessons using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. The work helped bring data science into elementary learning. The research–practice partnership is described in Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of Data Science and Curriculum Co-Design through Professional Development, published in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education in 2022.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Clemson University and a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from Furman University. I am a Teacher of the Year honoree, a Rising Educator recognition recipient, and a DonorsChoose grant recipient.

My professional learning includes completion of the full two-year LETRS program and ARISE training in behavior intervention and student support, along with training in project-based learning, gifted and talented education, and online teaching. That combination of literacy learning, instructional design, and student support shapes my priorities: clear explanations, purposeful practice, and thoughtful ways for students to participate.

My teaching approach combines whole-group and small-group instruction, learning centers, independent practice, and collaboration. Discussion, writing, games, projects, and hands-on tasks give students opportunities to apply skills and explain their thinking. I value clear routines, appropriate academic challenge, and purposeful student choice.

I bring that approach to lessons, projects, review activities, and classroom tools for Grades 3–5. My goal is to give you a useful starting point, not a script that replaces your expertise or your knowledge of your students.

I live with my wife and children on our farm in the Upstate of South Carolina. I enjoy reading, writing, exploring new ideas, and sharing useful things I learn. Through Glenn School Resources™, my goal is to create resources that respect teachers’ time and professional judgment while giving students meaningful opportunities to learn, contribute, and grow.