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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I Her husband was promoted to a new position in Tennessee, where Livingston began teaching fifth through eighth grade social studies and, later, eighth grade US history.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. He was also Hawaii’s first representative after it became a state in 1959.