Beveridge Family Teaching Prize Recipients
Established in 1995, the Beveridge Family Teaching Prize honors the Beveridge family's long-standing commitment to the AHA and to K-12 teaching. Friends and family members endowed this award to recognize excellence and innovation in elementary, middle, and secondary-school history teaching, including career contributions and specific initiatives. The individual can be recognized either for individual excellence in teaching or for an innovative initiative applicable to the entire field. The prize is awarded on a two-year rotation—to an individual in odd-numbered years and to a group in even-numbered years.
2017 Beveridge Family Teaching Prize
Gustavo Carrera, Buckingham Browne and Nichols School
A former student describes Gustavo Carrera, chair of history and social sciences at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, as “the single most transformative teacher . . . I had,” with “an infectious passion for history.” That transformational quality and infectious passion is readily apparent in his problem-based approach to teaching history. This approach culminated in the creation of a new American and Global Studies sequence that takes as its goal molding students into apprentice historians and engaging in historical conversation rather than historical certainty.