Glenn Wagner has been a physics and science educator for the past 20 years. He takes great joy in learning how people learn, so much so that he is in his second year of a Ph.D. program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He has written numerous articles related to physics teaching and is constantly trying new, research-based ideas in his physics classroom to improve student learning. Glenn Wagner is a winner of the 2009 Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence and was president of OAPT in 2008.