Daisy Martin

Daisy Martin is the Director of History Education for the National History Education Clearinghouse (teachinghistory.org), a federally funded project produced by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. A former high school history and civics teacher, she teaches preservice teachers at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Stanford University and works with veteran teachers in a variety of venues, including workshops funded by the Teaching American History grant program, the National Parks Service, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Martin holds degrees from the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University, and as a founding member of the Stanford History Education Group she served as its co-director for 2 years. Her current projects include working with teachers to create history performance assessments and investigating states’ history/social studies standards and assessment systems.