 He began teaching in 2000, first at Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights, California and then at Woodland Park High School in Woodland Park, Colorado.It was in Colorado where Sams met Bergmann and began to develop the flipped classroom model.Since Woodland Park, Sams served as co-chard of the Colorado State Science Standards Revision Committee, then moved on to become the director of digital learning at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh.