Angelo Resciniti is entering his 33rd year teaching in the Hillsborough County public school system.
He taught three years at East Bay High School, then three years at Brandon High School, followed
by the last 26 years as a charter member of the Armwood High School faculty. He was three times
named Armwood High School's "Teacher of the Year" by a vote of the faculty, once in each decade.
In 1991-1992 he was one of six finalists for Hillsborough County's "Teacher of the Year."
Mr. R graduated from the University of South Florida in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree featuring
a double major in English (Creative Writing) and English Education. He is certified in English, Gifted,
and ESOL. During his career Mr. R has developed several new programs -- he developed the syllabus
and taught the first Television Production classes in the county and co-pioneered an enriched gifted
program for non-traditional scholars. Since the mid-1990s he has been teaching Advanced Placement
English, both Language and Literature; during that time more than 500 of his students have earned
college credit through qualifying scores on AP exams.
Mr. R has also been writing professionally since he was 16 years old and picked up a part-time gig
with the Hollywood Sun-Tattler's weekly Teen-Tattler supplement. He went on to work as a sports
writer with the Sun-Tattler, serving as acting sports editor for the daily newspaper when he was 18
years old. His beats included the Miami Dolphins, college football, and all high school sports. Later
he moonlighted as a music columnist for a variety of South Florida publications, including the Miami
Herald, the underground Miami Daily Planet, and the prestigious Miami Phoenix. After moving to
Tampa to attend USF he served as the entertainment editor for the USF's daily newspaper,
The Oracle, for three semesters. After graduating and beginning his teaching career, he began
writing children's books for School Book Fairs, Inc., and Willowisp Press, publishing well over
30 books ranging in content from non-fiction sports books to general non-fiction about sharks
and pirates to detective novels about junior sleuths C. J. Watson and The Ketchup Kid to general
fiction about a Treehouse Gang. The books, though long out of print, still show up regularly on eBay
and Amazon.
Mr. Resciniti's biography appears in Volume 75 of the reference series Something about the Author.
Mr. R lives in Seffner with his wife of 28 years, a librarian, and their 22-year-old daughter, an Armwood
High School alumnus who is currently a graduate student in USF's architecture program.
He taught three years at East Bay High School, then three years at Brandon High School, followed
by the last 26 years as a charter member of the Armwood High School faculty. He was three times
named Armwood High School's "Teacher of the Year" by a vote of the faculty, once in each decade.
In 1991-1992 he was one of six finalists for Hillsborough County's "Teacher of the Year."
Mr. R graduated from the University of South Florida in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts degree featuring
a double major in English (Creative Writing) and English Education. He is certified in English, Gifted,
and ESOL. During his career Mr. R has developed several new programs -- he developed the syllabus
and taught the first Television Production classes in the county and co-pioneered an enriched gifted
program for non-traditional scholars. Since the mid-1990s he has been teaching Advanced Placement
English, both Language and Literature; during that time more than 500 of his students have earned
college credit through qualifying scores on AP exams.
Mr. R has also been writing professionally since he was 16 years old and picked up a part-time gig
with the Hollywood Sun-Tattler's weekly Teen-Tattler supplement. He went on to work as a sports
writer with the Sun-Tattler, serving as acting sports editor for the daily newspaper when he was 18
years old. His beats included the Miami Dolphins, college football, and all high school sports. Later
he moonlighted as a music columnist for a variety of South Florida publications, including the Miami
Herald, the underground Miami Daily Planet, and the prestigious Miami Phoenix. After moving to
Tampa to attend USF he served as the entertainment editor for the USF's daily newspaper,
The Oracle, for three semesters. After graduating and beginning his teaching career, he began
writing children's books for School Book Fairs, Inc., and Willowisp Press, publishing well over
30 books ranging in content from non-fiction sports books to general non-fiction about sharks
and pirates to detective novels about junior sleuths C. J. Watson and The Ketchup Kid to general
fiction about a Treehouse Gang. The books, though long out of print, still show up regularly on eBay
and Amazon.
Mr. Resciniti's biography appears in Volume 75 of the reference series Something about the Author.
Mr. R lives in Seffner with his wife of 28 years, a librarian, and their 22-year-old daughter, an Armwood
High School alumnus who is currently a graduate student in USF's architecture program.
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Mr. Resciniti
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