Hello! I'm Professor Paden. I teach ESL and Composition at St. Petersburg College. I'm a graduate of SPC myself, back when it was called St. Petersburg Junior College. Later I attended UF, where I earned my master's degree in linguistics and TESL. 

I've been teaching at SPC since 2008 and joined the ranks of full-time Communications faculty in 2014. Before that time, I taught ESL to UF's international graduate student population; taught EFL in Costa Rica; tutored for Smarthinking; developed a series of computer and job skills classes for the public library system in Lexington, Kentucky; and served as the full-time writing/Spanish/ESL tutor in the SPC Clearwater Writing Studio.

When I'm not teaching, you'll find me hanging out with my awesome family, dancing rueda de casino, listening to the Mindscape podcast, playing Dungeons & Dragons, or reading Terry Pratchett novels.

I hope to see you in class or on campus! :)