MEET REBEKAH LOFGREN

History Teacher

Instead of treating the study of history as memorization of dates and events, Ms. Lofgren emphasizes that history is a human experience. In Modern World History, this means that students examine murals depicting scenes from the Mexican Revolution, read accounts from soldiers in World War II, and consider the dilemma of people caught in the tension between tradition and new beliefs in 20th-century Kenya. In United States History, students tie the experiences of others to their own. “I tell students that, more than anything, I want them to come away with a sense of what they believe, what they think is important, and why. I want them to understand that history is not detached from the present—it shapes how we live and who we are today.”