Collaborating

Collaboration is at the heart of successful online teaching, and is an integral to my practice as an educator. I actively collaborate from the state down to the department level to build my own teaching capacity, to work toward educational equity, and to promote authentic, student-centered history education.

Professional Presentations Page

International: member and co-presenter

• World History Association
• Co-presenter, Material and Linguistic Synthesis in Indian Ocean Encounters (2018)

National: member and presenter

• National Council for the Social Studies
• Poster session, Using Swahili as Historical Evidence

State: Board member, presenter

• Promoting inquiry-based pedagogy as a board member of the Minnesota Council on History Education
  • Presentated sessions on using investigative lessons ( 2013) flipping history classes (2014), Planning World History courses (2014), Assessing Student Understanding of Perspective (2015), DBQs for Everyone (2016), Putting the World in World War One (2017), and Responding to Imperialism in the History Classroom (2018)
• Member Minnesota Council for the Social Studies
  • History lab presentation in March 2013 built on a student-centered lesson created during Assessment in E-Learning
  • Presented sessions on Using Swahili (2017) and World War One (2018)

District: Committee member

• Working toward equity with District Support Team for culturally responsive teaching and courageous practice, using the model advocated by Gary Howard
• Writing curriculum for World History to support the Minnesota Social Studies Standards, emphasizing historical thinking skills

Building: Teacher leader, change agent

• Organizing and presenting for the Culturally Responsive Teaching Team
• Leader in US History and World History collaborative teams organized as Professional Learning Communities
• Member of School Improvement Plan Committee that guides the PLC process.
• Acting Professional Learning Communities Coordinator while a colleague was on maternity leave.
• Secured a district innovation grant fund an Uncovering History Team at Anoka HS in the Spring of 2012. The group developed History Labs in which students construct historical knowledge from primary source documents.
  • The Uncovering History Team collaborated with the Minnesota Historical Society to develop and pilot US history lessons based on primary sources from the Society's collection.