I am a veteran history teacher at Boston Latin School in Boston, Massachusetts, focusing on teaching about discrimination, prejudice, human rights, social justice, the history of violence (culminating in genocide) as well as peaceful and non-violent alternatives in a student-centered environment. Since 2000, I have served as Seevak Chair in History at the school, the oldest public school in the United States. (For more on Boston Latin School, go to www.bls.org)
I teach 155 students each year in courses related to modern history, Facing History, art history, and the multidisciplinary Senior Capstone (which I co-teach) to juniors and seniors and I oversee the Seevak Human Rights and Social Justice fellowship program, founded in 2008, and the Topol Fellowship program, founded in 2016. Annually, I have traveled for the past 16 years with 50 of my students to Central and Eastern Europe to explore the power of place in sites related to World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and post-1989 Europe. To visit the online component of my history classes, go to www.learntoquestion.com; to visit the online Capstone course, go to: bostonlatincapstone.weebly.com.
At Boston Latin School, I serve on the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) and School Site Council (SSC). Nationally, I am a member of the Regional Education Corps of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a master teacher at the USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History and Education.
Trained as an art historian and serving as an art museum curator, I have organized numerous museum exhibitions and authored several books and exhibition catalogues, all on topics related to modern and contemporary art. I received my BA in Art History from Vassar College (1978), my MA in History of Art from Johns Hopkins University (1979), my MPhil and ABD in History of Art from Yale University (1982/1984), and my MAT in History Education from Tufts University (1999). Prior to participating in the Teachers for Global Classroom program, I have been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Advanced Research Grant to France, a Smithsonian Graduate Research Fellowship, a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship to support all studies through the PhD, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Museum Professionals, a Fund for Teachers grant to travel to Rwanda and Bosnia. I was honored as a Chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et lettres by the French government, 2004 Boston Teacher of the Year, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's A World of Difference Teacher Recognition award, the first International Upstander Prize from Facing History and Ourselves, and the September 11th Tribute Center 2015 Teacher Award.
My primary objective for participating in Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) program, which has been one of the most fulfilling and eye-opening experiences that I have been honored to have had, was to go beyond the largely Eurocentric focus of my educational background to help my students and school delve more deeply into global issues, establish international partnerships, and take advantage of a network of like-minded educators engaged in global issues. And if I were to self-assess my progress on that, I'd say it's an ongoing work-in-progress, now significantly accelerated thanks to the TGC experience.
I teach 155 students each year in courses related to modern history, Facing History, art history, and the multidisciplinary Senior Capstone (which I co-teach) to juniors and seniors and I oversee the Seevak Human Rights and Social Justice fellowship program, founded in 2008, and the Topol Fellowship program, founded in 2016. Annually, I have traveled for the past 16 years with 50 of my students to Central and Eastern Europe to explore the power of place in sites related to World War II, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and post-1989 Europe. To visit the online component of my history classes, go to www.learntoquestion.com; to visit the online Capstone course, go to: bostonlatincapstone.weebly.com.
At Boston Latin School, I serve on the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) and School Site Council (SSC). Nationally, I am a member of the Regional Education Corps of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a master teacher at the USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History and Education.
Trained as an art historian and serving as an art museum curator, I have organized numerous museum exhibitions and authored several books and exhibition catalogues, all on topics related to modern and contemporary art. I received my BA in Art History from Vassar College (1978), my MA in History of Art from Johns Hopkins University (1979), my MPhil and ABD in History of Art from Yale University (1982/1984), and my MAT in History Education from Tufts University (1999). Prior to participating in the Teachers for Global Classroom program, I have been the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Advanced Research Grant to France, a Smithsonian Graduate Research Fellowship, a Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship to support all studies through the PhD, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Museum Professionals, a Fund for Teachers grant to travel to Rwanda and Bosnia. I was honored as a Chevalier dans l'ordre des arts et lettres by the French government, 2004 Boston Teacher of the Year, the recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's A World of Difference Teacher Recognition award, the first International Upstander Prize from Facing History and Ourselves, and the September 11th Tribute Center 2015 Teacher Award.
My primary objective for participating in Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) program, which has been one of the most fulfilling and eye-opening experiences that I have been honored to have had, was to go beyond the largely Eurocentric focus of my educational background to help my students and school delve more deeply into global issues, establish international partnerships, and take advantage of a network of like-minded educators engaged in global issues. And if I were to self-assess my progress on that, I'd say it's an ongoing work-in-progress, now significantly accelerated thanks to the TGC experience.