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.
2021
Joseph Schmidt, New York City Dept. of Education
2019
John Hopper, Granada Public Schools, CO
2018
California History-Social Science Project and California Department of Education (Univ. of California, Davis)
2017
Gustavo Carrera, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, Cambridge, MA
2016
Indian River High School, Chesapeake, VA (Craig Blackman and team)
2015
Kevin Wagner, Carlisle Area School District, PA
2014
Joseph B. Radez Elementary School, Richmondville, NY (Laura Gagnon, Pamela O’Connor, Tara Coppolo, Donna Pacatte, Jen Hanes, Meka Osterhoudt, Rosemary Peterson, Cathy Dewitt, Susan Ginsburg, and Elizabeth Bisnett)
2013
John Russell, Burlington City High School, NJ
2012
Sol Joye, Neil Armstrong Middle Sch., Forest Grove, OR
Malynda Wenzl, Neil Armstrong Middle Sch., Forest Grove, OR
2011
Marney Murphy, Three Rivers Middle Sch., Cleves, OH
Jason Yaman, Blythewood Middle Sch., Blythewood, SC
2010
Maine East High School, Park Ridge, IL
2009
D.C. Everest High School, Oral History Project (Paul Aleckson, Nancy Gajewski, Patty Mayo, Glenn Olstad, and Travis Greil)
2008
Daniel Tolly, Ann Arbor Public Sch., Ann Arbor, MI
2007
Little Rock Central High School, Civics Team (Mike Johnson, Adam Kirby, Cynthia Mahomes, Keith Richardson, Rachel Rigsby, April Rike, Sarah Schutte, Kirby Shofner, George West, and Stan Williams)
2006
Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory Sch., Albuquerque, NM
2005
West Springfield High Schoool, American History Team, Springfield, VA
2004
Joan Arno, George Washington High Sch., Philadelphia, PA
2003
Ruth Johnson, DeMores Elementary Sch., Medora, ND
Maxine Trotter, DeMores Elementary Sch., Medora, ND
2002
Kevin O'Reilly, Hamilton-Wenham Regional High Sch., Hamilton, MA
2001
Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, IL
2000
Chris Butler, Univ. Laboratory High Sch., Urbana, IL
1999
California History-Social Sci. Project, Davis, CA
1998
Henry Assetto, Gordon Middle Sch., Coatesville, PA
1997
Marathon County Hist. Teaching Alliance, Wausau, WI
1996
Heidi Roupp, Aspen Public Sch., Aspen, CO
2021 Beveridge Family Teaching Prize
Joseph Schmidt, New York City Department of Education
Joseph Schmidt’s commitment to culturally responsive, relevant, and inclusive history education spans from the classroom to the administrator’s office and beyond. Schmidt’s innovations and interventions in New York City public schools are deep and broad and have clearly impacted teachers, students, and policy makers over the span of his career. His involvement in the Passport to Social Studies curriculum has reached well beyond the Harlem public school where he began his career as an educator. He is well deserving of this honor.