John Pratt

John Pratt is the U.S. history teacher at Greensburg High School. His teaching career began fifteen years ago at North Decatur High School. He is a graduate of Greensburg High School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Thomas More College. His love of history has helped him develop noteworthy experience-based learning activities for his students. He has hosted twenty-seven Chautauqua events and over four hundred student-driven interviews with historically or culturally...See more

John Pratt is the U.S. history teacher at Greensburg High School. His teaching career began fifteen years ago at North Decatur High School. He is a graduate of Greensburg High School and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Thomas More College. His love of history has helped him develop noteworthy experience-based learning activities for his students. He has hosted twenty-seven Chautauqua events and over four hundred student-driven interviews with historically or culturally significant people, overseen a student renovation of an AME Cemetery and raised funds for a Medal of Honor marker at South Park Cemetery. His awards include the Caleb Mills Indiana Historical Society's Teacher of the Year Award and the Indiana DAR's Teacher of the Year Award. He was also a recipient of a Lilly Creative Teacher Fellowship. See less