Hello!

 

My name is Josh Clixby and I am teaching Physical Geology at Elsinore High School for the 2024-25 school year! This is my 24 year in teaching and my fifth at Elsinore High School. 

 

Prior to working at EHS, I worked in the greater San Diego metropolitan area for the past four years as an itinerant educator. Before that I spent 15 years teaching Social Science and coaching in rural Montana and Idaho. As a side note, this will be nearly my 20th year working in a school with a Tiger Mascot.

 

I am originally from Missoula, Montana and I graduated from the University of Montana (also in Missoula) in 2000 with a degree in History and Secondary Education. Montana as a home state provided the canvas for which I developed a life long love of Geology. Whether it was Yellowstone or Glacier National Park, or the yearly hikes into the Mission Mountain wilderness, those experiences along with traveling through the American West pushed me to get a Masters Degree in Geoscience (obtained from Western Governors University in 2019) so that I could turn that interest into something that I could teach. 

 

When I am not providing instruction, I find myself at home with my wife and my two children in the greater San Diego area with several animals (4 cats, 2 Russian Tortoises) that we've picked up along the way. I enjoy cooking, starting books (not really good at finishing them), golfing, annoying my children, and a bevy of other time-wasting activities.