About the UCI History Project The UC Irvine History Project provides an institutional framework for collaboration between the UCI History Department and K-12 history/social science teachers in Orange County. The core of our Project is the series of teacher-training institutes we offer in the subjects of literacy, world history, and United States history. These institutes provide the basis for our on-going development of grade-appropriate curriculum that responds, among other things, to the challenges that teachers face in answering to district and state standards.
The UCI History Project is dedicated to the mission of providing a space for history teachers at varying points in their career, from credential candidates to veteran teachers, to engage in high-quality professional development. Teacher participants will experience a collaborative, scholarly environment that supports the development of historical thinking, content knowledge, and pedagogical expertise. To this end, the UCI History Project staff, which includes scholars and teacher leaders, are dedicated to building a model of professional practice within their own site in order to demonstrate the habits of mind, attitudes, and behaviors necessary to continuously improve the way history is taught, as well as to more deeply understand and appreciate the discipline of history itself.
The UCI History Project is one branch of a much broader program of regional outreach at UCI. For more information on these other UCI programs, please visit the Humanities Out There (H.O.T) website as well as the Center for Educational Partnerships (CFEP). In addition, the UCI History Project is a regional branch of the California History and Social Science Project, a statewide umbrella organization that promotes university-public school collaboration.
For a short overview of UCI History Project's partnerships over the last
year, please click here.
The History Project Staff:
| Robert Moeller
Email: rgmoelle@uci.edu | | http://www.hnet.uci.edu/history/faculty/moeller/ |
| |  Nicole Gilbertson
(949) 824-2057
Email: gilbertn@uci.edu | Nicole’s passion for collaboration with teachers, researchers, and students has led her to the UCI History project where she is the Site Director. She is the author of a published world history curriculum that emerged from her work with the Humanities Out There (HOT) program, a partnership between the UCI School of Humanities and Santa Ana Unified School District. Her experiences with HOT and the History Project prompted her to earn a teaching credential in History-Social Science at UCI in 2005. In September 2007, Nicole completed her dissertation on gender and citizenship by studying a group of Spanish
exiles in Britain in the 1820's. Her research on these exiles, and her work with the History Project, allow her to examine the historical evolution of citizenship from a variety of perspectives. |
| |  Courtney Amaya
Email: camaya@orangeusd.org | Courtney has taught at her alma mater, Canyon High School for the past 6 years. As
an active member of the Orange Unified School District, she is the Laptop Lead
teacher, an International Baccalaureate teacher, a member of the Professional
Development team, Department Chair, and the 2006 Teacher of the Year. Courtney
was thrilled to join the coordinating team for the World History Project in January of
2007. |
| |  Beth Anderson
Email: electa@uci.edu | | For the past 14 years, Beth has worked at El Toro High School, teaching US History and Economics. She is also a PhD candidate in UCI's History Department. Her dissertation examines the reading as reform in the Progressive Era, with particular focus on women's reform groups, libraries, and reading in the US West. Her high school teaching experience and her experience working with the Humanities Out There program at Santa Ana High School have made her very aware of the need for K-16 team building and better communication to help prepare all students for rigorous college work. |
| |  Sara Jordan
Email: sarajordan25@yahoo.com | | Sara teaches History at Segerstrom High School in the Santa Ana Unified School District, a partner of the University of California, Irvine History Project. She earned both her teaching credential and MA in curriculum design at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California. Sara enjoys working with many types of learners, from English Learners, to students with special needs, to the Advanced Placement student. As the teacher leader for the Literacy in the History Classroom program, she helps in the planning of the Literacy Institutes and the follow-up meetings, supports teachers in the institute, and has presented with Co-Director Nicole Gilbertson on teaching Document-Based Questions. |
| |  Kara O’Keefe
(949) 824-2640
Email: kokeefe@uci.edu | | Kara is currently a PhD candidate in the department of History at UC Irvine. She began her career as a high school history teacher. Her dissertation looks at the memory of lynching in the late nineteenth century U.S. West with particular focus on gender and race. She works closely with the Literacy in the History Classroom programs at our site. |
| |  Linda Lee
Email: Linda.Lee@SAUSD.US | | Linda has taught in the Santa Ana Unified School District for over six years. Four of those years have been spent teaching English Language learners at Carr Intermediate. Linda was invited to join the coordinating team of the Literacy in the History Classroom Institute after she participated in the program in 2007-2008. After attending the institute, a transformation took place in her teaching. She now approaches her lessons with a focus on literacy. She feels that it has been a tremendous opportunity to collaborate with other teachers in the program to help students learn social studies content while developing academic literacy. Linda currently teaches 9th grade at Godinez Fundamental High School. |
| |  Peter Tavoularis
Email: ptavoularis@orangeusd.k12.ca.us | | As a prelude to his work with the History Project, Pete has taught history for seven years in the Orange Unified School District (OUSD). During 2008-9 he will mark the beginning of his 13th year as an educator. Pete is also the Project Director of the OUSD-UCI TAH Grant. During the past several years, Pete has maintained an active role at both Orange High School (OHS) and the OUSD. He has served as a trainer for beginning teachers, a BTSA consulting teacher, and Summer School Principal (OHS). In addition, Pete is in his 5th year as a Subject Matter Faculty Consultant for Chapman University. He is also an instructor in the Bridge program for Santiago Canyon College. Pete matriculated at the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Political Science. He earned his teaching credential at California State University-San Bernardino. He was awarded a Master’s in Education from Concordia University, and presently holds an Administrative Services Credential in California. |
| |  Dale Woods
Email: dwoods@orangeusd.k12.ca.us | | Dale has been teaching 8th grade U.S. History at Portola Middle School for the past 5 years. In addition, he is the social studies department head and a member of Portola's Instructional Leadership Team, helping to guide school curriculum and policy. Prior to entering the teaching profession he worked in private industry in areas such as operations and accounting. Dale graduated from UC Irvine with a major in philosophy and holds a master's degree in cross-cultural education. He joined the Teaching American History project in June of 2008 and is excited to be a part of Orange USD's partnership with the UCI-HP. |
| |  Kendra Bean
(949) 824-2790
Email: beank@uci.edu | Kendra graduated from UC Irvine in 2006 with a BA in film and media studies. Currently she shifts her time in between being a part time admin. assistant for both the UCI Department of History and History Project, and helping to research fashion publications for professor Lynn Mally. She also works on the websites for both the History Department and History Project.
History and film are two of Kendra's biggest passions, and she hopes to work in film history and/or archiving in the future. |
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