The Hollyhock Humanities Fellowship

My superpower is creating a classroom filled with warmth, community, and persistence while honoring the unique differences each of my students brings. I strive to build a space where every student feels valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

Prioritizing discussion and student-led inquiry!

My teaching superpower is designing fun, inquiry-based Q3 and Q4 lessons that get students actively exploring history through activities, debate, and problem-solving.

Making teaching history culturally relevant and bridging connections to modern day!

I am passionate about what I teach and show students they can do anything difficult if they set their minds to it.

Being an avid gamer helps me understand and relish motivation and its drivers. Also, my undergrad work on freewill (lack of?) informs my teaching daily.

In my classes, the social studies that we engage in help students to understand our world right now.

Finding common ground across students' abilities and interests

My ability to provide contemporary analogies for historical situations and contexts.

I want my students asking why certain people or events are missing from the story, who decided this. Hopefully, they will be able to see how the included and excluded past is impacting their lives.

I build strong, trusting relationships with students and create engaging, structured lessons that make rigorous content accessible to all learners. I use data-driven strategies and clear frameworks to push students to think critically and succeed with confidence.

I believe I bring creativity and curiosity to my teaching.

On my best days, I am joyful and silly and intellectual.

My Teaching Super Power is my ability to foster and harvest strong interpersonal relationships with my students by providing the ability to see themselves in history. I use my students' identities to engage and relate to the beauty of history!

The ability to not only remain patient, but find the silver lining in a situation.

My teaching superpower is the grace and patience I show my students—I meet them where they are while still holding them to high expectations and reminding them that with hard work, they can achieve anything. I also use a multimodal approach—videos, artifacts, primary and secondary sources, and lecture—so every type of learner has a meaningful way to access and understand the content.

My teaching superpower is facilitating students' abilities to unveil their own meaning of political and social events, past and present, by helping to connect their own experiences to the world around them.

I am incredibly warm and loving with my students, and am able to make social studies feel relevant and engaging!

Differentiation- Using videos, images, and maps to make lessons more accessible to all types of learners. Also making dbqs

My superpower is holding high expectations and then supporting my students to get there in their own way! Knowledge of history is a path to excellence in their futures.

I can read a room pretty well; knowing when to pivot, slow down, apologize if I was impatient, rephrase something tricky, lighten the mood or ask a student to take a break before they melt down.

I try to relate historical events to contemporary themes in America.

The ability to make History engaging and fun for students. History is about telling a story and making events that happened in the past relevant to todays students, I've spent a amazing amount of time to ensure my students feel like a part of the story.

I'm relatable, empathetic, and flexible. For me , my biggest goal is taking knowledge off the pedestal of elitism. It's all learnable, teachable, and often formulaic.

Passion for the subject with the intention of having my students appreciating the social sciences to apply that in their academic careers along with having them become informed citizens.

My greatest power is my ability to develop trust and rapport with my students. I assume all students are capable and competent, and I approach each of them as individuals with the same respect I want them to show towards me.

I am a perpetual advocate for student voice and choice, and think students know best what is important to learn!

I think I'm a good mix of guidance and goofball that high schoolers need - quick to laugh at myself and with them, but also always there when they need support, real talk, or a reckoning.

My teaching superpower is my storytelling; history becomes so much more exciting when it is taught with enthusiasm, detail, and a good cliffhanger here and there!

My down-to-earth personality and ability to bring culturally responsive education in the classroom in a fun and engaging way.

My teaching superpower is turning complex history into dynamic, story-driven lessons.

My teaching superpower is my ability to see my students’ hearts—to understand who they are beyond the surface and meet them with empathy, patience, and intention. I turn that insight into something powerful and real, creating a classroom where students feel seen, safe, and inspired to grow into their fullest selves.

Creating a culturally responsive classroom that emphasizes joy, empathy, and critical historiography

My teaching superpower is making learning accessible to multilingual learners by embracing multiple languages in the classroom and encouraging translanguaging.

I'm a great teacher because I apply my background in experiential education and I love teaching students how to express themselves through writing.

My ability to engage with my students on a personal, human level!

My commitment to my students and passion for women in history :)

I break down complex ideas into clear, accessible learning experiences while still pushing students to think deeply and independently. I build strong relationships with my students, creating a classroom where they feel supported, motivated, and accountable for their learning.

Flexible to student interests and relating them to content areas

I put students in the middle of history, asking them to think, argue, and defend their ideas with evidence. My classroom feels like a time machine where students are actively making sense of the past, not just hearing about it.

Many of my students enjoy discussing controversial topics, so my combination of dry humor, using current events and their interests to make these issues more relatable has had a powerful impact over the years.

I foster strong, trust-based relationships with my students, grounded in genuine care, which creates a supportive and engaging classroom environment.

My Super Power is being a life-long learner and making the past, present.

Making real world connections to history and encouraging responsible role playing.

I remind every student they are experts in their own experiences and their voices matter - within our school, city, and political system.

Compassionate Knowledgeable

Living abroad helped me develop empathy and the ability to see history and my students from multiple perspectives.

I believe in racially equitable instruction, in which students are reading, writing, and discussing in every class using sources that are culturally responsive. History is learned through analyzing multiple perspectives.

My teacher superpower is building strong relationships with my students while giving them clear, structured instructions that help them succeed. I create a classroom where students feel supported, seen, and know exactly what is expected from them.

I help students create connections to the world around them and harness empathy when examining hard history!

I try to present material in a relatable way with humor and curiosity.

I am really great at affirming students.

The ability to make history FUN! :)

My teaching superpower is maintaining a classroom environment in which everyone’s unique backgrounds, attributes, and talents are consistently recognized and integrated into learning experiences. I’m always working to promote engagement and provide opportunities for students to creatively demonstrate how social studies is connected to everything around them.