Jeff Baxter

Posted: Apr 14, 2015

Jeff Baxter is an AP Language & Composition at Leavenworth High School. A graduate of the University of Kansas with Bachelor’s Degrees in Education and English and a Master’s Degree in Secondary Education, he also has a Juris Doctorate from Washburn University School of Law.

In his twenty-six years of teaching, Jeff has taught non-readers to National Merit Finalists. He brings the same passion and excitement no matter who he is teaching.

A fellow of the National Writing Project, Jeff has presented hundreds of workshops to middle and high school teachers and college professors throughout the Midwest.

Jeff is in the process of completing a book which began as a writing activity with his students. The book, More Than One Way Home, should be completed this summer.

Jeff is the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year.