Oscar Graybill, M.Ed., Director and National Presenter is a former San Diego City Schools’ EXCEL Outstanding Teacher and former California Mentor Teacher, Oscar Graybill used Cooperative Learning and Socratic Seminar in his classroom teaching career. Oscar worked for thirteen years as an English teacher at Walla Walla High School in Walla Walla, Washington, after spending his first seventeen years at Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, California. As Director of Socratic Seminars International, Oscar works with scores of teachers and administrators throughout the United States in the art and practice of Socratic Seminar leadership.