She has established a strong program for civic engagement as part of the Hooker Oak curriculum, earning her the Elementary School Social Studies Teacher of the Year award at the California Council ...

Elementary teachers are left largely to their own devices when it comes to social studies instruction, cobbling together materials from different places with little support or guidance from higher ...

All the news of the world — from wars to elections to celebrity deaths — has been a daily, beginning-of-class ritual for the social studies teacher and the thousands of students she has taught ...