Matthew Davis is the Teacher Librarian and S.T.E.A.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) Teacher at Cory Elementary in Denver Colorado. He has been a Physical Education teacher as well as the facilitator for the S.T.E.A.M lab and makerspace for Littleton Public schools. He has also provided math and reading intervention to help struggling students and has been able to deliver direct instruction with various math and reading intervention curriculums. He started work teaching as a member of the school age child care program. For ten years in the after school program, he planned activities and curriculum for the 60-90 students a day based on current and historical events, holidays, classical and modern art, theater and dance.
Matthew received an Associate of Arts in Theater from Casper College. Afterward he received his Bachelor's degree in Theater Performance from Minnesota State University where he graduated as valedictorian and with high honors. Finally, he received his Masters in Teaching and Learning from Colorado State University in 2021.
Matthew acted as the head of acting and dance for the Children’s Conservatory at Playhouse Merced, as well as doing after school acting classes and performances for low income schools throughout central California. Since moving back to Denver, he has directed, choreographed and taught for children’s theaters in the area. He has been privileged to perform with The National Theater for Children, touring schools with educational theater productions and continues to perform in Denver and the surrounding areas. He has had the pleasure of working as the Artistic Director of Arts in the Open, a company with the mission of combining theater, environmental education, and enjoyment and preservation of the environment, for the past 14 years.