Dr. Abby Reisman, Assistant Professor of Education, will present a colloquium titled, "Beyond the History Curriculum Wars: Inside the Intricate Work of Designing Professional Development for History Teachers."

Dr. Abby Reisman, Assistant Professor of Education, will present a colloquium titled, "Beyond the History Curriculum Wars: Inside the Intricate Work of Designing Professional Development for History Teachers."

Dr. Abby Reisman is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education in the Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Division. Prior to her arrival at Penn GSE, Dr. Reisman was a visiting professor at Teachers College-Columbia University, and a researcher at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she directed the “Reading Like a Historian” Project in San Francisco, the first extended history curriculum intervention in urban high schools. Dr. Reisman began her career in education as a classroom teacher in a small, progressive high school in New York City. Dr. Reisman’s research centers on the challenges of teaching document-based historical inquiry. Her scholarship investigates the design and implementation of curriculum materials, assessments of student learning, teacher education, and professional development experiences that support document-based analysis and classroom discourse.