"The skills of diplomacy are embedded all throughout from the beginning to the end... Students have the language to articulate their growth. They become agents over their growth in a new way."
— Kat McCritchie, after piloting Power Play at Crosstown High School, Memphis, TN

"This leaves a lot of room for organic, thematic connections between movements, between eras, which is a gold standard for a history project... It was really cool to see my students traversing through that in a narrative, historical sense vs. just pure chronological history... Students get the reins, take ownership of it and make it theirs." — Mario Sazo, after piloting The Echo of Voice at Da Vinci RISE High School, Los Angeles, CA

"The unit is college preparatory for sure. Analyzing primary sources, doing research, making claims with evidence and reasoning - those [are the] types of things they need at the college level."
— Kim Sixta, after piloting History In Layers at Ruskin High School, Kansas City, MO