Donald Hutchison taught disadvantaged students in his first ten years as a teacher. He taught in an inner-city elementary school and an inner-city high school. Don also worked with physically and mentally challenged children in state agencies in New York and Oregon.
In 1982, Don completed his graduate work in mathematics. He was then hired by Jim Streeter to teach at Clackamas Community College. Through Jim's tutelage, Don developed a fascination with the relationship between teaching and writing mathematics. He has come to believe that his best writing is a result of his classroom experience, and his best teaching is a result of the thinking involved in manuscript preparation.
Don is active in several professional organizations. He was a member of the ACM committee that wrote the computer curriculum for two-year colleges. From 1989 to 1994, he was chair of the AMATYC Technology in Mathematics Education committee. He was President of ORMATYC from 1996 to 1998.
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