Senor Calderón was raised in Santa María, CA. As a youth, he helped his family by working in the strawberry fields. The hard work there taught him the importance and value of what the Greeks call paideia, a high quality education. 

Señor Calderón has taught and tutored a plethora of subjects at the secondary level.  At Cabrillo High School he taught Spanish I, Spanish II, and Modern World History.  During his summers, he taught Modern World History at Santa María High School, Righetti High School and Pioneer Valley High School, all located in the Santa María coastal valley. He worked as a certificated after school tutor at Santa María High School for five years where he tutored students in history, government, economics, Spanish literature, and English literature.  

After teaching World and U.S. History at Fesler Jr. High School, Calderón transferred to El Camino Junior High School in the fall of 2007, joining the faculty in the English department. There, Calderón founded and advised the school newspaper, the Titan News for two years.  As an aficionado of soccer, Calderón started and directed the talented El Camino Junior High "Titans Soccer Academy" for three consecutive years. He was voted by his colleagues as the "Site Teacher of the Year" for the 2007-2008 academic school year.  For his accomplishments, Calderón was voted the "Angel in Education" by his colleagues, an award given by the Kiwanis Club.

In the 2012-2013 Calderón was nominated as the Paulding Middle School Site Teacher of the Year within the Lucia Mar Unified School District. That same year, he was nominated as the Lucia Mar Unified District Teacher of the Year. At Paulding Middle School, he taught English Language Development, College and Career Awareness, and a high school Spanish I from 2010-2015. Señor Calderón taught Spanish II, World History, and English Language Development for Newcomers for four years at Arroyo Grande High School. For the 2019-2020 school year, Señor Calderón joined the International Languages Department at Righetti High School.