Teacher Profile

Mr. Fentin graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts 
(Amherst) with a B.A. degree in Political Science in 1976.  Fentin earned a 
M.A. degree in United States History from Wayne State University in 1996 and 
a second Master's Degree in Library and Information Science at Wayne State 
University in 2011.  Fentin spent two and a half years as a Peace Corps 
Volunteer in Quito, Ecuador as a teacher at the National Institute for the 
Blind.  In 2004, Fentin was selected among 50 teachers in the United States 
for a two-week intensive study tour of Japan by the Toyota International 
Teacher Program.  In 2006,as part of Building with Books, Fentin travelled 
with 8 high school students from Michigan to Mali, West Africa to build a 
primary school in a small village. Mr. Fentin has been teaching Social Studies at CMA since 
1995.