Curriculum Specialist for hybrid and remote instruction. This was a project was created with Pear Deck Application and was in partnership with the County of Education in Santa Cruz, California. This curriculum aligned with the International Baccalaureate Program (IB), History of the Americas Higher Level. This was for hybrid instruction lesson, with students in the classroom and in remote learning and could completed synchronously or independently. This aligns with the California Social studies State Standards & IB Curricular Standards. Student interactive responses are included in the slide deck presentation. In this Lesson you will find the Understanding by Design Lesson Plan, Instructional Slides with Student Responses, Assignment Worksheet and 2 Student Samples.

Curriculum Specialist for History of the Americas Higher Levels 1 & 2 for college credit. This curricular project focused on the IB Historical Concepts, targeted content material, summative and formative assessments. The alignment of skills and content were scaffolded for Levels 1 & 2 integration to prepare for the IB diploma program. This History of the Americas content was focused on the Civil Rights & Social Movements of Native Americans (Topic 17). Skills focus on writing with historical evidence and document analysis. In this lesson you will find the Understanding By Design Lesson Plan, Instructional Slides with Student Responses, Assignment Worksheet, and 2 Student Samples.

Curriculum specialist for Advanced Placement (AP) for AP European, AP World, and AP United States history courses for college credit. This curricular project focused on the AP historical themes and key concepts for each time period. The alignment of skills and content are scaffolded between AP’s different grade levels (primarily 10th, 11th, and 12th grade). Skills focus on document based analysis, free response prompts, multiple choice stimulus questions for specified time periods/geographic locations. This lesson was created to introduce students to key organizers and events of 2nd and 3rd wave feminism post 1945 with a specific focus on intersectionality of POC. In this lesson you will find the Understanding By Design Lesson Plan, Instructional Slides, Assignment Worksheet and 2 Student Samples.

The Race Card Project was designed in partnership with the County Office of Education in Santa Cruz, California and their regional occupational program. This project was partnered with the Santa Cruz Community Foundation. Both of these interdisciplinary projects were focused on the artistic expression of race, diversity, and dialogue centered around the AVID educational program (Achievement Via Individual Determination). These projects were a collaboration of different student led art and technology teams.

This was a project completed for Global Student Embassy, a non profit that focused on student exchange and environmental sustainability projects between four global locations- US, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama. This curriculum reader focused on ecological education and regeneration and won an award from California’s State Legislature in 2016. This was created for grades 9-12 as well as college and university students at participating institutions such as University of California Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Davis & Los Angeles.

Curriculum Specialist for Ethnic Studies. This was a curricular project is based on the California Ethnic Studies standards. What is Race as a concept and as a reality? This lesson was created using Brown University’s “Choices” reading and was adapted for differentiated skills. This was used for an introduction to the Causes of The Civil War in the United States unit. Ideas and definitions such as race, ethnicity, critical race theory, and systemic racism are introduced and analyzed within a historical backdrop of the early to mid 1800s. In this lesson you will find the Understanding By Design Lesson Plan, Instructional Slides, Assignment Worksheet and 2 Student Samples.