As an official NPS volunteer for the Heritage Education Services, I review, comment on, and edit draft curriculum materials and website content, primarily Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plans. I also consult on other aspects of the program.

For the Heritage Education Services office, I developed and carried out policies to coordinate and promote NPS cultural resources education offerings. I also managed the Teaching with Historic Places program. During my tenure, this program created 150 standards-based classroom lessons and posted them online; offered professional development for educators, preservationists, and public historians; helped coordinate and promote a series of Youth Summits; and won numerous awards. I spoke at professional conferences and conducted dozens of workshops on historic preservation and heritage education topics. Over the course of my preservation career, my articles appeared in Magazine of History, Preservation Forum, The Public Historian, The Federalist, Interpretation, Vineyard, CRM, and National History Day "theme books."

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses places listed in the National Register of Historic Places to enrich traditional instruction of American history, social studies, civics, geography, and other academic subjects. The cornerstone of this award-winning program is a series of more than 150 classroom-ready, online lesson plans used primarily in grades 4--12. These lessons are based on real historic places and engage students in active learning through analysis of readings; maps; a variety of visual images; and other documents, including primary sources; and through synthesizing activities and service learning projects. The lessons are indexed by state, theme, time period, learning skill, and the national history and social studies standards. TwHP also offers other publications, workshops, and online resources. The TwHP website contains an extensive professional development section, "Teaching Teachers the Power of Place," which includes articles, course materials, videos, PowerPoint presentations, workshop agendas, lists of helpful resources, and more.

For the National Register of Historic Places, I: *reviewed nominations and applications related to historic places throughout the country; *helped develop policy, wrote guidance and provided technical assistance; *served as the liaison for 10--14 states; *coordinated several special projects; *evaluated the significance of and documentation for historic places and registered thousands into the National Register, qualifying them for protection and other benefits; *helped local, state, and federal agencies carry out preservation responsibilities; *developed standards and guidance, including authoring several official "How To" books on identifying, evaluating, and documenting historic places; *conducted workshops; *helped design, write instructions for, and field test a process for programmatic evaluations of federal and state preservation programs; *coordinated the first major external evaluation of the National Register criteria for historic significance and integrity; *developed the Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program; *guest-edited two issues of the NPS periodical CRM, wrote an essay for AASLH's Encyclopedia of Local History, and wrote chapters for two historic preservation books.

After chairing National History Day's Advisory Council, composed of representatives from national history and social studies organizations, for five years, I now continue as a member. The Council advises the NHD Board of Trustees, Executive Director, and staff on matters of academic content and pedagogy; selects winners of annual teacher awards, and assists the organization in other ways.

National History Day (NHD) is a national organization devoted to promoting history education through a program in which students become the scholars, doing their own original research and sharing their findings through papers, exhibits, documentaries, performances, or websites. Each year culminates in a national contest.