Halfway through the term, I make sure grades are calculated to date and have one-to-one conversations with students about their progress. This builds trusts and engages their future success.

Using the Teaching with Integrity resources compiled by the American Historical Association to discuss the importance of teaching discrimination in America’s past.

How students reacted to the first week in our “Coffee Shop” experimental classroom.

How sharing food makes students feel more comfortable, helps them get to know each other, and connects us all.

Free discussion activities for the U.S. History survey course. Each prompt contains background reading, an image, a primary source, contemporary commentary, and questions to connect it all.

Laser-cut projects serve as creative expressions for personal history narratives.

My local personal narrative has become a favorite project. I look forward to what the students will share and how they will present it. Often, it helps them see their own history as important.