Justin Manwell is a veteran English teacher and drama director at the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy. For twenty-three years he has worked to improve student writing and to grow a love of literature and writing. In the last fifteen years, he has also worked to improve faculty and student integration of digital tools and methods, including Differentiated Learning, Flipped Classroom, and the ideas of Creative Instructional Design. He developed an American Literature open-source e-text, works to publish motivational design research, and blends the pragmatic use of technology tools with the sound teaching techniques of Jesuit education. He lives in Livonia, MI.