When Jimmy Adams teaches, he prefers to tell stories, not only for entertainment but it’s his way of bonding with his students. 

“It is the most fun thing about teaching from storytelling (rather) than just stating facts and things like that because you kind of get a hold of their attention to a story,” Adams said.

Adams is well-known throughout the school because he’s also the boys and girls cross country coach, the boys and girls swimming coach, he’s a huge Star Wars fan and he has written a book.

His classes mainly take notes on each lesson by watching videos while typing or writing about how things were made or how conflicts had started.

Other times his students go over their online books for the vocabulary he gives out. These are terms they are learning about history back in the 1890s to 1940s.

Junior Kaylyn Blanc, who is in Adam’s U.S. History class, said he is a reliable teacher. 

“He helps me understand what I need to do by giving us a lot of notes to follow and gives us chapters to follow that pretty much have word for word on what we need to know,” she said.

Junior Brooklynn Owings added: “I put his jokes into facts so I can remember everything just by the way he teaches.”

Adams never planned to be a history teacher. 

He was in the Army before studying to be a lawyer in a college, but he decided to take a semester off and was a long-term substitute teacher. 

That was all he needed to get the teaching bug.

“Being a sub turned out to be a lot of fun, so I changed my mind,” he said.

Growing up, Adams was a fan of reading fictional books that pitted the good guys vs. the bad. 

“It was a different time back then,” he said. “We didn’t have much distractions.

There never was a plan into writing his book. He had the urge to just write something he had always wanted to do.

“For a couple years I was like ‘I wonder if I could do this?’” Adams said. “So one time during a parent-teacher conference, I started writing one of the chapters and just started spit balling it.”

Around 2019, Adams published his book “Timeworm.” He had planned to self-publish his story, but then other companies reached out before doing that. 

As for his Star Wars fandom, Adams’s dad is the reason why he is so into it now.

“He took me to see Return of The Jedi in 1983 and it was the first time he and I had done anything together like that,” Adams said. “He is a Star Wars guy, not much as I am now though.”

He has nearly 500 funko pop collection of Star Wars, and other different collectables like legos.

“What I have at school is actually a tenth of my collection. All my expensive stuff is at home, but it is who I am. It is so fun. I see kids looking at this stuff. My personality, I guess,” Adams said.

In his 10th year coaching cross country, Adams encourages his students to improve by keeping them updated on workouts and information of their past race records.

“He pushes us to the best of our ability,“ senior Abigail Monaghan said.