Exploring America in the 1990s: New Horizons (Grades 6-8) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781618212863)

Molly Sandling is a teacher at Jamestown High School in Williamsburg, VA. She completed her master's degree in history at Yale University and her master's degree in education at The College of William and Mary. She has written social studies units on various decades in United States history, one of which she received an NAGC Curriculum Award for in 2012.

Dr. Kimberley Chandler is the Curriculum Director at the Center for Gifted Education at The College of William and Mary. She completed her master's degree in gifted education and her Ph.D. in educational policy, planning, and leadership, with an emphasis in gifted education administration, at William and Mary. While in the master's degree program, she wrote the language arts unit Literary Reflections and received the A. Harry Passow Classroom Teacher Scholarship from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). During her doctoral program, she was a participant in the David L. Clark Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration and Policy, sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). She also received the NAGC Outstanding Doctoral Student Award and the NAGC Hollingworth Research Award.Kimberley's professional background includes teaching gifted students in a variety of settings, serving as an administrator of a school district gifted program, and providing professional development training for teachers and administrators nationally and internationally. She has also served as an adjunct instructor for gifted education endorsement courses for the University of Virginia, the College of Charleston, Casenex, Inc., and The College of William and Mary. Kimberley is the Network Representative on the NAGC Board of Directors, past chair of the NAGC Early Childhood Network and past co-chair of the NAGC Education Committee, Member-at-Large Representative and Membership Chair for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent (ROGCT) Special Interest Group, Newsletter Editor for the CEC-TAG Board of Directors, board member of the Virginia Association for the Gifted (VAG), and USA Representative to the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC). Her research interests include curriculum implementation and policy issues in gifted education and the design and evaluation of professional development programs for teachers of the gifted.Recently, she coauthored a book for Prufrock Press with Dr. Tamra Stambaugh: Effective Curriculum for Underserved Gifted Students. She has also served as the editor for publications from the Center for Gifted Education that are distributed by Prufrock.