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Gibbs Smith Education
Gibbs Smith Education
Over 50 years in educational publishing
We are both an ESOP (100% employee-owned company) and a Certified B-Corp committed to giving back to the communities we serve
Independently-owned & women-owned
Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) award-winning titles
We are educators
Mission driven:
To produce products that accurately and effectively tell the stories of our collective past in ways that engage, inspire, and motivate students and teachers to build a better future.
To provide authentic learning experiences in which students not only focus on events, but on building and refining the necessary skills they need to effectively understand the past and its consequences in our modern world.
To provide educators with the classroom tools they need to guide students toward accurate, nuanced historical understanding.
Abigail Henry has been teaching African-American History (AAH) at Mastery Charter for the past 12 years. As content lead for the network she spearheads professional and curriculum development. Recently Abigail won a Pulitzer Center Grant to incorporate the NYTimes' 1619 Project into curriculum, and she continues to write and speak about her work for the Pulitzer Center. Abigail also helped write several units for the School District of Philadelphia's AAH curriculum update. She continues to additionally work as an Adjunct Professor for St. Michael's College where she developed a course titled "AAH for Teachers." Her other AAH consulting is done through her theBLKcabinet LLC and has been provided for Villanova University, Haverford College, PBS, and the Trellis for Tomorrow Foundation. This year she is she starts her fellowship at University at Buffalo as a Schomburg Fellow and PHD candidate in curriculum and instruction.
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