Andrew Danner's Professional Strengths

wow, hi, my name's Andrew Danner.

And I just want to take the next five minutes

to show you how the diverse experiences that I've gained

over the last 10 years as an educator um would

really help make me a fantastic fit for this job

at GBH.

And before I get started, I just want to let

you know anyone who's watching this, that I am genuinely

so excited to have taken part in this interview process

and just the conversations I've had to learn so much

already um that I just appreciate the opportunity to interview

for this job.

So thank you, thank you so much.

So I just want to talk about my experience is

kind of starting at the, at the the most kind

of focused in in the classroom.

Then all the way to the national exposure I've gained

in my doctoral program.

So I'll start off by just my experience as a

classroom teacher.

Um I've been a teacher for 10 years.

I've primarily taught United States history.

Um I've taught what the African American history of course

is being cold, which is developing black historical consciousness in

my school district.

And I have taught world history history, ap world history,

global issues also, but the primary focus of what I've

been teaching over 10 years has been the United States

history. Um I've also spent two years in instructional coach

doing uh coaching and, you know, developing professional development for,

for teachers within my school and in some cases within

my district money.

Um obviously, you know, one main focus of the way

I teach is that having students engaged with primary secondary

sources, pictures, graphs, charts, and videos and using all these

things together to create rich learning experiences because I know

you don't like the videos where students can see and

hear the people or the images or just whatever that

video video brings to the table that can, that can

enrich the learning experience so much and you can, you

can develop such a great learning exercises around those things.

And then just on top of everything else, I'm really

big on just bringing those untold, those lesser known stories

into my students classrooms, so making sure I'm teaching the

histories through the eyes of those people who don't necessarily

make the history books like IDa B Wells, daniel lou

hamer. Nowadays, Stacey Abrams when I was telling my students

look at at the fight for voting rights going all

the way back to the civil war.

Um, I was having a look at that fight through

these three people's eyes while still bringing in those major

events. Now.

On top of that, I've been developing curriculum for my

district, the Jefferson County public school district, which is one

of the largest district in the nation, is the largest

and most diverse in Kentucky.

There's over 100,000 students in our district.

Um, and I've personally prepared curriculum frameworks for multiple grade

levels. I think about about six or seven different grade

levels at very in various uh, contents US, history, world

history, local history and I've been developing.

Uh, and this is where I think the very direct

experience that that would help me with this job is

that I have developed somewhere between 800 1000 documents, images,

videos, audio files as primary and secondary sources for my,

my teachers within my district to use to supplement the

curriculum frameworks that I've helped to write.

So here's an example.

Just some of the sources that I've used is just

images, you know, making sure that I'm telling the stories

through the eyes of the people were teaching.

So like this is Shishani map rock as opposed to

just giving a secondary overview of like how, um, how

native americans indians, different nations understood what was around them

and recorded that just give them the images, give them

the overview and then maybe give them a supplement that,

that shows what, what this, this images showing.

Same here.

This is a voodoo prayer that was that was told

right before the Haitian revolution starts.

It was by a priest named Duddy Bookman.

And this was one of those major events.

It's not really told about that often, but again through

the eyes of the Haitians as opposed to those are

the time you hear the Haitian revolution through the eyes

of Europeans, the french, the people who lost and we're

unfortunately slaughtered.

Um, here's just some of the frameworks, I've written, The

one on the left is 1/5 grade framework.

The one on the right is a high school framework.

So I have that, that multi grade and multi content

area experience on top of that, I'm the current president

of the Kentucky, Counsel for the Social Studies and under

my presidency.

And these are the things that were growing before.

But things that that I've really been able to help

continue is that we nearly doubled our membership in the

past in the past eight months.

Um, we're in the process of creating a statewide civic

education coalition with with both educators and people outside of

education, including people within the government, the state government.

We have increased partnership Ships and co promoted events statewide

and we've increased communication with our stakeholders.

Um again, just, you know, this is uh, my president's

letter that goes out every month.

This is an image of Needs assessment that we sent

out to teachers statewide to help develop our professional development

offering. So we're also increasing those things.

This is our YouTube channel that we're currently developing and

really trying to grow, or the goal is to really

grow this extensively over the next 12 months.

This is an image from a recent webinar that we

hosted. This is an image from our last annual conference,

Kentucky's Hidden histories again, telling those stories that are lesser

told, right, And that's been a huge professional focus for

me. And then finally, I'm currently a doctoral student at

the University of Kentucky and The richest experience I've gained

as an educator has been with the chance to work

with Dr.

Swan, who was the lead writer of the C3 framework

and one of the just the the top people in

the field of social studies curriculum development and that's the

whole focus of my doctoral programs, curriculum development and telling

those those lesser known stories.

That's that's why I brought together in this doctoral program.

Um I've also I've written curriculum the teachers have used

nationwide. There's some images from teachers in north Carolina and

Maryland using my my uh curriculum that I personally have

written. Um this is an image of some curriculum, the

should technology scare us.

The Council for Economic Education wrote uh published this curriculum

after I wrote it and they use it on their

website. I was featured last month in the school library

Journal Journal and an article about anti racist teaching and

how it's impacting classrooms nationwide.

And then I've been fortunate to have been published multiple

times alongside dr swan and Social Education.

So this is just to the articles are these are

the two articles that that I've co wrote with Dr

Swan among others um that that have appeared in social

educator education, including this month's issue um focusing on curricular

looping so all of those things, because I know these

are all different, different pieces that could come into this

job as a curriculum specialist in GBH and all those

things I really think make me a very strong candidate

for this role.

So thank you so much for taking the time to

talk to me, to look at all of my experiences

and my um and and the things that I've done

and hopefully that you you agree with me and and

you know, I'm so excited for the hopefully the opportunity

to do this work.

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