Eric L. Brown, M. Ed.

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“His coworkers say that he has extraordinary teaching talents ….. He showed the students at East (H.S.) that if you put your mind to something, you can do it. Every young man should strive to be a good man like Coach Brown,” says twenty-five year experienced P.E. Teacher and Varsity Head Basketball Coach, Ron Banks.

 

Teachers are proud to hold the title of Coach and Eric Brown is no exception to that rule. Although he has not coached football since 2008, his students and colleagues fondly refer to him as Coach Brown. With a Master’s Degree in Education and 30+ years of working with both persons with developmental disabilities and educating high school students, Eric has been recognized by the Hazelwood East faculty as a Spartan Educator Award winner and is a nationally honored as a member of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2004-2005.

 

His efforts to teach sophomore students Advanced Placement World History has yielded each year at least one sophomore student passing their National A. P. College Board Examination earning them 3 credit hours at a Missouri College or University. As previously mentioned Mr. Brown coached varsity football, varsity baseball and junior varsity basketball during his tenure.

 

One of his proudest coaching highlights came while coordinating the offensive during the 2008 football season. That year, Hazelwood East High School won its third ever State football championship. Coach Brown considers himself as a positive force in his community. You can see an American flag proudly flown over his lot of land in the same neighborhood where he works, raises his family, and sends his children to school.

 

On April 02, 2020, Coach Brown started an online business called Chores Lesson Plans & Fundraising LLC. Facing retirement from teaching after the 2023-2024 school year, against the odds of success Coach Brown is coordinating another optimistic plan.

 

His vision for the newly created Chores LLC is three-fold. Chores is created to facilitate a way students can get paid an allowance regularly by their parent(s). Second part of the online business is Lesson Plans: Coach Brown created a 60-minute new teacher training module to assist teachers in decision making and strategies to help them become a successful classroom teacher. Mr. Brown also provides culturally based internet assignments that teachers can use in their classrooms.

 

Finally, Chores LLC is dedicated in the fight against cancer and serves to deter students from smoking cigarettes or vaping and encourages visitors to donate to the American Cancer Society on behalf of his mother, Nancy, or donate on behalf of a member of their family impacted by cancer for a cure.

 

Chores Lesson Plans LLC is based on Proverbs 3:3, ‘Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you;

Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.’

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