Solicited and managed over $8 million in federal and private contracts over ten years to develop customized educational materials and professional development opportunities and built a team to support the implementation of these programs.
Federal Contracts
U.S. Department of Education (2025-2028)
American History and Civics Education National Activities Grant, Revolutionary Ideals: Understanding 250 Years of American Principles
- Professional development cohort opportunity for 120 teachers in eight states to learn how to implement National History Day in their classrooms.
- Virtual webinar series for 240 teachers nationwide to study the founding era and the ideals that shaped America’s 250-year history.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (2018-2019, 2024-present)
Veterans Legacy Grant Program, Silent Heroes: Untold Stories of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II (2025-2026)
- Engaging 56 educators and 600+ students to tell the story of 110 U.S. Marine Corps Veterans who served during World War II
- Program in progress
- Link to all completed work.
- View a virtual program for students and teachers.
Veterans Legacy Grant Program, Silent Heroes: Untold Stories of the Korean War (2024-2025)
- Engaging 50 educators and 600+ students to tell the story of 100 underrepresented Korean War Veterans
- Cross-published 109 Korean War profiles on NHDSilentHeroes.org and the Veterans Legacy Memorial and produced video eulogies when groups visited local cemeteries.
- Link to all completed work.
- View a sample profile and student eulogy.
Veterans Legacy Grant Program, Understanding Sacrifice (2018-2019)
- Live institute for 18 teachers to travel to Europe and Hawaiʻi.
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program (2019-present)
- Online courses (2020 to present) reaching 1,200+ educators
- Using the Resources of the Library of Congress to Construct a Historical Argument (2020-present)
- Inspiring Student Research (2021-2022)
- Creation of two co-branded publications with the Library of Congress
American Battle Monuments Commission (2015-2020, 2024-present)
- Researching Silent Heroes Contract (2024-2029)
- Virtual programming for 60 teachers annually to research Silent Heroes.
- Updating and refining educational materials created in the previous contract.
- Link to completed work from 2024-2025 cohort.
- Link to a sample profile from World War I, World War II, Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
- Understand Sacrifice (2015-2020)
- Live institute for 45 teachers to travel to Europe and 18 teachers to travel to the Pacific to visit U.S. military cemeteries abroad.
- Developed 60 lesson plans and 65 Silent Hero profiles
Private Foundation Contracts
Bezos Family Foundation (2023-present)
- Piloted an intensive teacher professional development program targeting urban and rural teachers in Alabama, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oklahoma
- Reached over 60 teachers and 1,200 students between 2023-2025
- Launched the second program for teacher professional development California, Louisiana, Michigan, and Tennessee in September 2025
Dr. Scholl Foundation (2023-2024)
- Led a Revolutionary Ideals webinar series in spring 2024, reaching over 70 educators.
Summer Institutes
Coordinate and lead summer institutes in both the U.S. (California, Colorado, Hawaiʻi, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.) and abroad (Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the Philippines) for over 350 teachers and 250 students since 2013.
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