Educator Fellowship

A partnership between CHSSP and CA-Revealed 

In 2022, the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP), in partnership with California Revealed (CA-R), created an Educator Fellowship program. This is a special opportunity for California's K-12 educators to research and create curricular materials in history and the social sciences using CA-R’s digital collections, of which sound and moving images are especially vast.

California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Meet our 2023-2024 Educator Fellows

Mary Lane

Mary is a third- and fourth-grade teacher at Barbara Comstock Morse Elementary School in Sacramento, CA. A teacher for nine years, Mary is constantly looking for new ways to engage her students in culturally relevant pedagogy. She strongly believes that to learn history, students need to understand how it interacts with their current lives and to hear the stories of those who look like them. Mary plans to use CA-R's archival materials to engage students in storytelling with their own family histories, since many of the primary sources give students a starting point to learn about the immigration patterns that brought people to California. Because many of her students are first- or second-generation immigrants, Mary hopes this project will be a great way to introduce primary sources at the elementary level.

Eunice Ho

Eunice is an educator working at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center on an AAPI multimedia textbook project, “Foundation and Futures.” She has had great success teaching with primary sources in the classroom, including using the Asian American Political Alliance Oral History Project to create a character mixer activity, which allowed her students to explore the political origins of the label “Asian American.” As an Ethnic Studies educator, Eunice believes in looking both in and beyond official archives to counter archival silences and center community members as knowledge-producers. She is excited that the Educator Fellowship will help her further the discipline of Ethnic Studies, by using the CA-R archives to celebrate, remember, and learn from those who paved a way for us.

Meet our 2022-2023 Educator Fellows

Irene Sanchez, Ph.D.

Irene Sanchez, Ph.D. is an award-winning Ethnic Studies Educator, writer and poet. She has served on the National Humanities Center Teacher Advisory Panel and the Huntington Library Teacher Advisory panel. She was selected as a Pulitzer Center teacher fellow in 2021 and a part of the UCLA HGP IE stories curriculum project from 2023-24. Irene was an inaugural fellow in 2023 for CA-Revealed/CA History Social Science Project. Her curriculum work focuses primarily on local history centered on the Inland Empire region and broadly Southern California where she was raised.  Previously a high school Latinx Studies teacher for 6 years, Irene is currently an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Bernardino Valley College. For more information on her work visit www.irenesanchezphd.com.

Virginia Nguyen

Virginia is a Portola High School history teacher, an Equity, Excellence, Diversity, and Inclusion (EEDI) district mentor, and cofounder of Educate to Empower. She is committed to fostering school communities that center student voice,  belonging, and empowerment. In addition to being a teacher and district leader, Virginia facilitates workshops, publishes articles, and speaks at events advocating for equity and justice in education. She serves on the Teaching for Justice Conference: Bridging Communities for AAPI Belonging and Well-Being. Virginia feels highly honored to be a Californa Revealed Fellow. She is excited to create document sets and lesson plans about the Vietnamese American experience from the voices and points of view of Vietnamese Americans. The opportunity to collaborate and learn from the California Revealed, California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) and Fellow Dr. Irene Sanchez is a chance of a lifetime. Virginia is also a mom, wife, and proud daughter of Vietnamese refugees. These identities continue to shape her dreams and aspirations. As a teacher of nearly 20 years, she believes educators have the power to change the world.