About Jim

Jim Slosson started teaching March 17, 1972.  He was in his own words, “…the worst beginning teacher I have ever met or supervised during my 50 years in education. I had to teach myself how to teach.”  Twelve years later he received the prestigious Christa McAuliffe award for excellence in teaching. The last eleven years of his first career were spent fixing, and then leading, the worst high school in Washington State as it became a model for alternative education.

In 2003 Jim returned to the classroom to create AGA/Math Lab.  His struggling pre-algebra students made gains of 2.5 to 3 grade levels in a single school year.  Beginning in 2012 Jim worked in various long-term substitute jobs to polish his methods and test them out in Middle School Math, Algebra, Geometry and Algebra II classes. 

Jim worked with challenging kids for parts of six decades.

In 2023, Jim accepted a half-time job teaching struggling middle school math students. Jim, being Jim, wrote an entire middle school math program (grades 6 - 8) and an companion reference book for each grade level. It is still a work in progress, but the second draft is complete, and the third draft is more than half done. That’s about 2000 pages, and it’s free if you would like a copy. Contact Jim for details.

You may reach Jim directly: jslosson@comcast.net