He currently works with secondary science and math pre-service educators in the CSUteach program. He coordinates the Middle Grades program as well as being faculty in residence at MC2, the STEM high school on campus. Jim has been Chair and Registrar for C&P in the past as well as hosting the annual conference for the past three years in New Orleans and the upcoming conferences in Cleveland. His current research is in the interplay between teacher inquiry and student inquiry when both are practiced simultaneously in a classroom.