The 2023-24 school year will represent Mr. Keenan's 23rd year at Woodcreek High School and 24th year overall as an English teacher. He has taught all four grade levels while at Woodcreek (most recently all seniors in the 2022-23 school year), and is currently slated to teach CP English 11 exclusively in the Fall term of the 2023-24 school year, along with one section of CP English 11 and two of CP English 12 in the Spring. Mr. Keenan earned his bachelor's degree in English from California State University, Sacramento, and his teaching credential from San Francisco State University. Mr. Keenan is married and has three fantastic children, and in his free time he enjoys sports, television and movies, and Diet Coke. 

"Chronic remorse, as all moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean." - Aldous Huxley

"The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others – who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation, which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something people with courage can do without." - Joan Didion

"Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed." - John Steinbeck

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."  - Ray Bradbury