The Sugar Mill, the Sea, and Society was a week-long experiential professional development program focused on the historical and contemporary landscapes of Barbados and the West Indies.  The goal was to see, experience, and learn about Barbados on its own terms, rather than simply through the lens of our typical History and World Geography textbooks.  The experience provided field-based learning for Virginia educators to develop educational resources that can be accessed here or by clicking on the image on the left.

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Funded by

Virginia Geographic Alliance​ 

• Contained in this website are a number of classroom ready resources and lesson plans that leverage interactive technologies (layered web maps, 3-D videos, and geo-tagged primary sources) to help you and your students see and analyze what our doughboys experienced, sacrificed, and achieved during World War I.  Developed with Teresa Goodin.

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• Funded by

• American Battle Monuments Commission

• Virginia Tech

• GeoInquiries™ are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model and can be presented quickly from a single computer and projector or modified for students’ hands-on engagement.  Collections that I helped support include US History, World History, Advanced Geography, and the Georgia GeoInquiry Collection.

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• Funded by Esri

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• Statistics in Schools offers free lessons, activities and resources that use current and past data from the U.S. Census in order to help students across the country use and understand applications of statistics in the real world.  The activities are the product of eight content teams comprising teachers, subject matter experts, and standards experts in K-12 education and curriculum design.

• Click here to read an op-ed piece on the power of statistics in schools.

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• Funded by the US Census