Ben Pendarvis has taught at Tri-County Early College High School in Cherokee county for the last five years. His duties span the humanities, including facilitation of the Senior Graduation Project for four of those years, expanding the Performing Arts/ Drama elective, and co-facilitating an Adventure Club. He promotes the use of experiential philosophies and methodologies in the classroom and sharing them with others, which helped set his school apart in a designation by the national XQ SuperSchool Project as one of the top 50 finalists for innovative high schools.