THE AUTHOR

James Edward Cleland has completed four decades in teaching at the elementary and secondary levels in Catholic schools in the Chicago area first at Notre Dame de Chicago Academy in Chicago and then at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. While at Notre Dame de Chicago Academy Cleland has also served as an Assistant Principal while concurrently teaching in the middle grades and junior high grades. At Loyola Academy Cleland taught Design and Art Survey courses—both of the curricula for these courses were written by him. He also introduced Architecture I and Architecture 2 to the Loyola Academy Fine Arts Department while writing the curricula for both courses. He developed the first ever high school chapter for the American Institute of Architecture Students at Loyola Academy to further the love of architecture to his high school students. Additionally, Cleland taught at the Graduate School of Loyola University Chicago as a Graduate Assistant to Professor Robert Cienkus wherein he taught the unit on the Inquiry Training approach of Dr. Richard Suchman from the Illinois Studies in Inquiry Training.
 
Cleland lives with his wife Natividad in Lincolnwood Illinois and hopes to introduce grandsons Mason and Archibald to the wonderful world of architecture and design as well as model rocketry. Cleland’s sons—Scott and Craig—were also students of his in the Design course at Loyola Academy and he shares colorful anecdotes about those experiences.