Christopher VanOosterhout is a technology professional with over 20 years of teaching experience. He is also an eBusiness strategist who has worked with non-profits, local small businesses, and multi-billion dollar corporations alike. Christopher lives along the Lake Michigan shoreline with his wife and their four homeschooled boys on a hobby farm. In his free time, he advocates for responsible data stewardship.
HSLDA Online Academy: What’s a typical Saturday night like for you?
Christopher VanOosterhout: Spending time with family and friends on our farm and hosting our church life group once per month on Saturday evening.
HSLDA Online Academy: What are your must-have smartphone apps?
Christopher VanOosterhout: Email…I am trying actively to reduce my smartphone usage but unfortunately ProtonMail and Outlook are still important and highly used applications for me.
HSLDA Online Academy: What can you cook to perfection? Are you willing to share the recipe?
Christopher VanOosterhout: Grilled cheese sandwich:
- 2 slices of bread (preferably not the heel pieces, unless you’re into that sort of thing)
- 2–3 slices extra sharp cheddar (sharp enough to have an opinion on politics)
- 2–3 slices pepper jack cheese (for that rebellious, “I put hot sauce on everything” energy)
- Butter (enough to make cardiologists sigh…although if I don’t have butter, I will use whatever)
- Optional: tomato soup, because I want to be a bit traditional even if my choice of cheese makes me seem like a rebel.
HSLDA Online Academy: If you won the lottery and decided to give up teaching, what would you do instead?
Christopher VanOosterhout: Spend more time on our farm, start a larger greenhouse operation, build a pond, spend more time with the ministry non-profits I am most passionate about, do more to promote the homeschool movement, and become more involved in local government. Finally, I would work to eliminate the lottery as a predatory product (in this scenario a bit of hypocrisy there…😊 )
HSLDA Online Academy: If you could pass on any wisdom to your students, what would you share?
Christopher VanOosterhout: Stay God-focused in all you do.
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