Are you a teacher who is interested in learning more about California History? Do you want ideas to take back to your classroom to use immediately? If so, learn more about my California History Courses from Fresno Pacific University. Take up to one year to complete my online self paced courses.  The California Missions are a series of 21 religious missions established between 1769 and 1833. The missions were founded by the Spanish as part of their efforts to colonize California. They were intended to convert the native people of California to Christianity. The first miss ..read more

Are you a teacher who is interested in learning more about California History? Do you want ideas to take back to your classroom to use immediately? If so, learn more about my California History Courses from Fresno Pacific University. Take up to one year to complete my online self paced courses.  In the Aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government ordered the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. The internment was carried out by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), an agency created by President Franklin ..read more

Here is what people are saying about Fresno Pacific University Continuing Education course SOC-984: Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release. "I enjoyed learning about all the applications and strategies we had to use for the class, such as Flipboard, Adobe Spark, letter writing, etc. I'm excited to use these in my own classroom. Thank you!" N. Benito. "Overall, this course gave me several things, both personally and professionally, that I will absolutely be using in my classroom in the future. ...this course did a great job of filling in the details that many textboo ..read more

Get started using primary sources with your students. In SOC-984 Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release, you will gain ideas for using primary sources and many other ideas to take back and use with your students. The skills you will learn in any of my California History courses apply to your teaching and can be implemented immediately. In SOC-984, you will learn to integrate applications into your lessons, such as building a blog, curating a collection of books, creating a short video, curating websites and videos, and much more! Take three weeks to one year to complete my Fre ..read more

Saw this article and had to share. It offers some practical ideas for students and parents stuck at home during the COVID-19 crisis. Education Week "What a whirlwind time we are in. It's changing so fast!" Emails like this one from a Maine principal filled my inbox this week as the school leaders with whom I work rushed to prepare their faculties for imminent school closures. The anxiety is shared by students. Suddenly everything is uncertain ..read more

District Intentions I have started to see PE related videos come over our Facebook and YouTube. I think this is great for those student who can access them. We have many, 300 or half of my students, to be exact, who do not have access to the internet. I offer some low pressure alternative to structured PE during time away from school.  PE Activities Happening While at Home I see many parents walking to the store with their little ones. Many of the parents in my school community do not have cars and rely on vanpools to get them to their places of employment. As I drive through my att ..read more

Students, parents, teachers, school principals, and school personnel are you feeling the overwhelming stress of Covid-19? Have you been laid off from your job? Are you trying to work from home and deal with your children? Are you trying to teach your children something that you are not even sure about? Here are some practical ideas to help relieve your stress. What Districts Expect Packets of math worksheets. Drill and kill math fact worksheets. That is exactly what they are doing, killing our student's love of math. Alternative Ideas Now, I am a reading teacher at heart. My M.ED. is in ..read more

Wow, we are all under so much stress right now. Are you feeling it? Why then are districts putting even more stress on our parents, students, teachers, and other district personnel? Here are some ideas of what I think could happen to help reduce our parent's and student's anxiety over learning at home.  What Districts Expect Our districts are handing out Chromebooks to any student who does not have access to a computer at home. Well that is all fine and dandy if you have internet access or electricity for that fact.  Our districts are requiring teachers to hand out 3 weeks worth ..read more

Today California lawmakers voted unanimously to apologize formally for the incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII. Read more in the article below. You can learn more about Japanese internment in my online course ​SOC-984 Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release. Complete this course on your time from 3 weeks to one year. California Lawmakers Expected To Apologize For U.S. Internment Of Japanese Americans It's been just over 78 years since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order authorizing the internment of Japanese ..read more

Some of our student's worlds are so small. I work with students who may never leave their own small town. We expect students to use background knowledge in all subject areas. This is difficult for those who have little experiences outside of the realms of their own towns.  Learn about California's great history and take what you learn back to your students. Through my online courses you will explore museums and historical sites. You will be able to build field trips to the places you learn about in these 100% online courses.  I enjoyed this short article about ..read more