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The Golden Waffle Principle: Finding Meaning in Teaching

With educator and author Steve Perkins

Award-winning educator Steve Perkins shares his new book "The Golden Waffle Principle: Finding Meaning in Teaching." Registration is required for this free author event.

What if teaching meant more than test scores and lesson plans?

Through a series of compelling essays drawn from real-life classroom experiences, award-winning educator Steve Perkins celebrates the joys, struggles, and deeper meaning of the teaching life. Each reflection in The Golden Waffle Principle reveals timeless truths about learning, leadership, and the human connection at the core of education. With wisdom shaped by decades of experience, Perkins blends classical insights with modern-day experiences, offering encouragement and laughter and a reminder that teaching is a calling, not just a job.

Book sales and signing will follow the conversation. Registration is required for this free author event.

About the speaker:

Steve Perkins is an award-winning educator with more than thirty years of experience teaching in secondary and university classrooms. Among his various honors and awards, he is an Indiana Teacher of the Year, Texas Foreign Language Association Latin Teacher of the Year, and a Sagamore of the Wabash. As a blogger, podcaster, and speaker, he has spoken on many topics related to a broader understanding of education. 
Steve has published numerous articles and books. His books include Latin For Dummies, Achilles in Rome: The Latin Iliad of Baebius Italicus, and Desert Days: 40 Devotions for Men. His articles, including "From Servius to Advanced Placement: The Anfractuous Path of the Helen Episode in Aeneid 2," "The Depth and Charm of Latin Translation," and "The Homoousios Doctrine and Non-Reductive Models of Consciousness: An Orthodox Christian Look at the Mind-Body Problem," cover a range of topics in Classics, theology, and philosophy. Steve is a huge lover of music, especially classic rock and '80s metal, but he can be found digging the blues, jazz, country, and classical as well. A collector and user of fountain pens, he also loves driving his black Ford Mustang and reading. His favorite fiction works at the moment are the Longmire novels by Western author Craig Johnson. Steve is married to his college sweetheart Melissa, who is also a Latin teacher and education leader. They live in Westfield, Indiana, and have two adult children, Austin and Olivia.

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