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About LEARN NC
LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers
and students of North Carolina — and the world.
Gary Langner
Instructor
Mr. Gary Langner has almost 40 years of experience in education. His very first job was at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. during the 1968 turbulent summer. But most of his career was spent teaching in a Kansas City suburb where he taught business classes and computer science. He had been teaching computer science long before the AP exam was first offered in Pascal and pioneered his district in offering their first APCS class. He then made the transitions to C++ and finally JAVA.
After a brief retirement and an eight week trip to Southeast Asia he taught JAVA, was the tech-coordinator and Assistant Principal at an inner city school for four years. In the late 80s he took a short break in the middle of his career to work for the United States Senate where he took on the task of training Network Administrators how to manage their Local Area Networks as they were moving from mini computers and typewriters to PC?s.
He now lives in his retirement home on the beach in North Carolina but because of his love for teaching programming still makes a sixty minute round trip drive each day to teach in a small coastal high school. In his free time you might find him fishing in the surf or in his beach chair with a current best seller. On some days you might be corresponding with him from that spot on the beach as he taps out his comments and grades from his dependable laptop.