As the AAG's Educational Affairs Director for the past nine years, I have participated in several projects designed to develop geography curriculum materials for elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. My role has been to help conceptualize the projects, obtain the funding, and manage the development work.  Three of these projects that are especially relevant to this conference are listed below.

        I serve on the advisory board of several other curriculum materials development projects and as an advisor to the National Geographic Society's Geography Bee and International Geography Olympiad.   I also participated in the development of the National Geography Standards and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Geography Assessment, and served as an advisor to the Annenburg Corporation for Public Broadcasting telecourse, World Regional Geography: The Power of Place.

        While teaching at George Mason University, prior to joining the AAG, I offered several geography education courses for teachers both on and off campus.  One of the more interesting off-campus experiences was tailoring a team-taught course to the needs of Fairfax County teachers in response to a major curriculum change.  While at GMU, I was a founding member of the Virginia Alliance for Geographic Education, and I served on its steering committee for several years.
 

Publications:

AAG. 1995 (print materials) and 1999 (CD). Activities and Readings in the Geography of the United States (ARGUS). Washington: DC: Association of American Geographers

AAG. 1997, 1998.  Hands-On: Active Learning Modules on the Human Dimensions of Global Change.  Washington: DC: Association of American Geographers

AAG.  forthcoming 2001.  Activities and Resources for the Geography of the World (ARGWorld).  Washington: DC: Association of American Geographers