These accomplished educators amplify and uplift teachers’ voices. They advise Retro Report on our educational mission, helping us to create outstanding free resources for teachers. To learn about our other advisory group, Teacher Ambassadors, click here.
Jackie Katz
Jackie Katz has been teaching biology and chemistry at Princeton High School in Princeton, N.J., for the past 10 years. She has been able to incorporate her love of…
Kim Yates
Kim Yates, a native of Clintwood, Virginia, is an instructor at Pineville Independent Schools, located in Pineville, Ky., where she teaches 11th & 12th grade ELA, Mass Media, and…
Shelina Warren
Shelina Warren is an Arkansas native, army veteran, and a national board social studies teacher/coach at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., with 20 years in education.…
Jeremy Wang
Jeremy Wang is a science educator at St. Thomas More Catholic School in St. Paul and an education researcher with over 18 years of experience working in K-12 schools,…
Alondra Salazar
My name is Alondra Salazar, I have worked in education for over 10 years I was born in Mexico City and have lived in Arizona most of my life.…
Brande Johnson
Brande Johnson has been a teacher since 2009 in both California and Nevada. Johnson currently teaches Advanced Computer Science, English and History at Carlin Combined School in Carlin, Nev.,…
Valerie Green Thomas
Valerie began her career as a founder of an independent business school in rural Jamaica for underserved adolescents. Her thirst for an awareness of the structures and systems in…
Derek Dubossi
Derek Dubossi is an environmental science teacher at the prestigious LaGuardia High School in New York, N.Y. His mission is to integrate the arts and the sciences while teaching…
Asim Gaffar
Asim Gaffar is the Social Studies Department Chair and an AP Social Studies teacher at the College Preparatory School of America in Lombard, Ill. He also is the Forensics…
Trish Everett
Trish Everett is a self-described “professional nerd,” who teaches Psychology, Political Science, and Constitutional Law at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She serves on teacher advisory boards…
Chuck Taft
Chuck Taft is an 8th grade history coach and department chair at University School of Milwaukee. Chuck tries (heavy on the try) to make the nation’s past come alive…
Clayton T. Sweeney II
Clayton T. Sweeney II has been in education for six years and has taught AP Macroeconomics and AP US Government in addition to US History, Economics, Government. He currently…
David Kendrick
This is David Kendrick’s 21st year teaching children in Georgia, after earning a Masters in Social Studies Education and an Education Specialist in Reading, from the University of Georgia.…
Fabian Carballo
Fabian Carballo is an AP Government Teacher at Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Calif. In his 17 years of teaching, Fabian has also taught English and Adult Education. He…
Jason Milke
Jason Milke has been teaching Social Studies for the past 7 years at Waverly-Shell Rock High School in Waverly, Ind., where he has also taught American History, Behavioral Sciences,…
Joe Welch
Joe Welch, an American History teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, serves as the 2022 CCSSO Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year and was recently recognized as a…
Kevin Erspamer
Kevin Erspamer is currently a high school history teacher at the Drew School in San Francisco with his family (spouse and two boys). Previously, he has taught in Germany,…
Kymberli Wregglesworth
Kymberli Wregglesworth is a veteran teacher who has spent her entire career at her alma mater, Onaway Secondary School, in Onaway, Mich. She teaches World History, Civics, and a…
Lauren Goepfert
Lauren Goepfert has been teaching middle school and high school social studies since 2003. She currently teaches at Longwood High School in Middle Island, N.Y. She is a James…
Lauren Piraro
Lauren Piraro is a United States History and AP U.S. History teacher at Gilroy High School in Gilroy, Calif., and is passionate about creating learning experiences in her classroom…
Nicole Frazer
Nicole is in year 13 of teaching at Jefferson High School in Rockford, Ill., and is currently teaching Civics, Economics, AP American Government and Politics, and Introduction to Educational…
Pat Sprinkle
Pat Sprinkle, a son of the rust belt, is a 13th year, 11th and 12th grade social studies teacher at the NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies in New…
Ryan Werenka
Ryan Werenka has been a Social Studies teacher for over 20 years in the Troy School District. He currently works at Troy High School in Troy, Mich. Ryan was…
Sam Futrell
Sam Futrell is a middle school social studies teacher at St. Michael’s Episcopal School in Richmond, Va., and Vice President of the Virginia Council for the Social Studies (VCSS).…
Trisa Woolley Swenson
Trisa Woolley Swenson has been a science educator for over 18 years, teaching Environmental Science, Biology, and Chemistry. She currently teaches at Valley High School in Las Vegas. She…