Joseph Welch

Joseph Welch was recently named The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s 2018 National History Teacher of the Year and, at 33, is the youngest winner to date. An eighth grade social studies teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, Welch has also been the curriculum chair and project advisor for Project Connect, a sponsor of the National History Day Program for Regional Students and the director of North Hills Middle School’s D.C. Trip Program.

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Charter Schools

History Is Not a Spectator Sport and It's My Job to Engage My Students

In March 2007 I was finishing my second month of student teaching at Charters Valley High School in suburban Pittsburgh. I had completed drafting a lesson on the early effects of the Cold War in...

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