03/01/2019
Model UN in Qingdao, China, March 2018. Our all-star students amazed us and led successful proposals in 3 separate committees. Great work!!!
History is fun, at least it is when you have bright, energetic students who want to learn.
03/01/2019
Model UN in Qingdao, China, March 2018. Our all-star students amazed us and led successful proposals in 3 separate committees. Great work!!!
As grade level leader for the 11-12 DP students, I offered some motivation during their assembly: No Retreat, baby, No Surrender! (Nov 2017)
03/01/2019
Year 2 at BIBS (2017-18). Some amazing students and a supportive teaching team.
30/03/2017
The distringuished representative from Greece (India) addresses the General Assembly on closing day
One of the many true heroes from WW2 and the Holocaust.
25/07/2016
While I don't urge my students to pursue degrees in history, I turn once again to the universally applicable lessons that history and the humanities teach. Not everyone should be a historian, but everyone needs history - and the gifts it gives.
History isn't a 'useless' major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of Since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2007, the history major has lost significant market share in academia, declining from 2.2% of all undergraduate degrees to 1.7%. The graduating class of 2014, the most recent for which there are national data, included 9% fewer history majors than the pr...
The Cold War in Eastern Europe. Another 10th Grade World History project with first-time film makers.
10th Grade groups tinkered with both the Cold War and film making, with a fun result.
04/07/2016
10th Grade World History class explored the goods and bads of nationalism, then the Cold War - completing their first film assignments.
02/07/2016
Emily, Susan, Nadia, Sonia, & Dr Jay
Justice at last.
2015-2016 teachers relive the sorrow of Dion's lost love.