Coach Profile

Denis K. Titchenell, BA double major music and German, MA music, UC Riverside, worked as an editor, writer and translator with Theosophical University Press after graduating and has edited hundreds of papers for publication and academic journal submission privately over the years. Having worked in software development with Theosophical University Press and Tau Business Computers, he applied for and received a California Community Colleges life credential in Computer and Related Technologies and taught computer science full time for 15 years at LACC. He is now a retired college professor who, with his wife, homeschooled his children through to college, one of whom has become the author of over ten published books. He has taught, among other things, English, Computer Science, German, Music Theory and Composition, Aikido, Mathematics, and Poetry/Songwriting. He is the author of a number of books including Rise of the Pirate Classes; Freedom from Mental Manacles which deals with a homeschooling movement and SAT, ACT, TOEFL College Prep English Practice which covers vocabulary, grammar and writing style in depth. With extensive experience both in and out of mainstream academia, he is a strong advocate for education which is not hampered and hamstrung by prescribed and proscribed policies established with little, if any, respect for the needs of students and the joy to be found in genuine education.